[ WP ] Walk me through a soldier 's last day alive .

As he left the helicopter and stepped onto the muddy ground, he could n't help but feel all alone. He did n't want to be here. He had thought that his numbers would n't be called. While he'd worried about it ever since graduation day, he thought he'd be safe. But he was n't, and now here he was in some foreign country, fighting a war he did n't even know why he or any other American was involved in. 
 
 Soon his platoon began to march across the swamps and rice paddies towards the village where a group of VC's were hiding. This was just a quick search and destroy mission that their CO had said would be done before lunch time. Of course he did n't believe it and neither did any of his fellow men except Crazy Jerry, a buck-toothed psychopath who probably would have been a serial killer had he not joined the Army. 
 
 `` I'll shoot more of them than all of you combined. Those chinks will never know what's coming.'' 
 
 `` Chinks?'' he said, pondering Crazy Jerry's intelligence. Just then a few shots were fired. They all got down and soon there was a full blown attack. The young man did n't know what to do other than just stay on the ground and hopefully not be shot. He did not want to die in some rice paddy in Vietnam. 
 
 All of a sudden the shots stopped. Miraculously no one was dead but there were two guys wounded. The Sergeant in the group called for a helicopter to come out, and in a few minutes one did but it was then hit by an RPG. As he looked up he then felt a searing pain in his right leg. Soon a few more things hit the leg and he fell. 
 
 `` Grandpa!'' 
 
 `` Who's grandpa!'' 
 
 Just then he woke up. 
 
 `` Grandpa, come and watch me!'' Said a little girl in a bright blue swimsuit. It was summer and he was not in south Vietnam but in a quiet suburban neighborhood somewhere in the heartland. 
 
 `` Grandpa!'' 
 
 Just then he got up from his chair. He still moved a little rough on his metal leg, even though he had used a prosthesis for nearly 40 years. 
 
 `` I'm sorry hun, but I have to go inside to talk to grandma. I'll watch swim later.'' 
 
 He then walked inside his house. The house still looked like something out late 70's, but certainly was n't a dump. He went to go sit in his easy chair and watch some TV. He was hoping that his wife was making dinner but she was in the laundry room, finishing up the day's load. 
 
 The man turned on the TV. There was n't anything on that was too interesting, but he kept it on some movie channel showing some old black and white film he had n't seen in years. He then fell asleep.
