Collateral damage
I'm an avid watcher of war documentaries. I remember my dad downloading world war 1 and 2 in color for me on a tablet I had in my tween years. I learned so much about the equipment and tactics from them. From there a niche interest developed, one I have in common with very few people. Recently I was watching a video on YouTube on the Vietnam war, a man was describing how he had made a friend in the middle of what he called hell. He spoke very highly of his friend whom he called a funny and intelligent young man. The Viet Cong (America's enemies) were notorious for using guerilla tactics while fighting in the dense tropical jungle. Among the most used weapons in their arsenal were booby traps (hehe boobies). So the aforementioned man and his friend were on one of the jungle trails when tragedy struck. His friend stepped on a mine and met a gory instant death. The man telling the story described how he flew into a rage, grabbed his weapon and without thinking headed down the trai...
