Chapter 4: Cocktails are for women and whiskey is for men

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flashback

September 11, 200X

Narration:

(CNN BREAKING NEWS

Terrorist Attack on United States

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: This just in. You are looking at obviously a very disturbing live shot there. That is the World Trade Center, and have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center).

 That is the World Trade Center, and have unconfirmed reports this morning that a plane has crashed into one of the towers of the World Trade Center)

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(The sound now of a C-130 air cargo plane roaring over us )

Airstrip - Base Camp - Iraq

Narration:

(As the C-130 coasts to a stop, the hatch rotating down on a hot,

desert lifeless airstrip somewhere in Iraq. Nothing seems to

live or move in the midday desert sun.

A dozen new recruits step off the plane, unloading their duffel

bags, looking around like only the new can look around, their

hair regulation-clipped, crisp, new green fatigues fitting them

like cardboard.

Joseph Alinea is just another one of them - as he turns into a

tight close-up, to look at a motorized cart pulling up alongside

. . . He's about 19. Newmeat. His face, unburned yet by the sun,

is tense, bewildered, innocent, eyes searching for the truth).

Snowball: (next to Joseph, man with a Southern accent) That what I think it is?

Alien: ( looks at this soldier clumsily walking down the ramp)I guess so ... (An uncomfortable look between them).

Vegas: Fuck this. i hate this place already.

Snowball: Yo man!, If Isn't Alien. Who would've thought we've meet here.

Alien: ( fist bumps snowball) Hey bro, ain't you in the same plane with me? .. fancy seeing you here (jokingly).. this doesn't look like the ritz.

Snowball: (laughs) Fuck you, tall white and stupid.

Dirty: It sure ain't dipshit, Well I'll be dipped in shit - new meat! 6 ft 4, but with shit for brains.

Alien: Dude! (laughs) fuck.. Bro, thought you jumped ship, we're still missing someone.

Vegas: Hey cocksuckers!, missed me faggots. (laughs)

Snowball: Hell no, White Trash! Get the fuck outta here.

Everyone: (In unison Laughs)

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