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Free Sample Chapters 359
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By the time we reorganized the company and got going again, it was the
middle of the afternoon. I was getting worried about having to set in
again after dark, but the battalion commander’s order to track down the
fleeing NVA had been firm. However, just as the point pushed off the
hilltop and started along the ridgeline bordering another rice paddy to
our right, the battalion CO ordered us to come back because it was getting
too late in the day to be pushing our way across hostile territory. He got
no argument from me.