walter-wayne
The entire platoon had been captured, twelve of them as they trekked through the jungles on a rescue mission. And now they lost communication with base so who the hell would send anyone out to look for them? The Viet Cong captured them, keeping them incarcerated in a village where they had set up their siege against the Americans. Now, they were prisoners and Monty was scared shitless.
Fear emanated off of them like smoke and the Vietnamese knew it too. They stuffed the American POWs into one makeshift jail cell where there were no beds, no nothin' -- just them, as they are now, hungry, wet clothes, without protection from their own government. Monty had heard of a great escape. It could be done, couldn't it? With enough people --
He looked to the youngest soldier he saw, the most impressionable, he thought.
"Hey -- " He tried to get ther other's attention. "... how're you holdin' up, kid?"
