Notes

I nodded at him. I wanted to swallow, but my mouth was too dry. I couldn’t tell Gunny how scared I was. The truth of it was, I didn’t believe I could do it. I knew how to use a gun. but I’d never done anything more than shoot on the range. Now I’d have to shoot at men, flesh and blood human beings. If I didn’t my friends could die. How did I get myself into this? I thought of home, my father and grandfather and how bad it was living there. But for the first time in my life, I wished I was there rather than here.