Pass Time equals telling stories

Today, Lee Strunk and Dave Jenson got into a fight because Strunk gets accused of stealing Jenson’s pocketknife but he denies that he ever even seen it. They become almost best friends and do everything together. Later today Strunk is seriously injured when he steps on a mine and gets half of his leg blown off and must be evacuated and flown out of the battle zone and we later learn that he has died on the helicopter on the way to the hospital. We also learned that Rat Kiley once had a friend by the name of Curt Lemon and we learn of the story of how he died. It turns out that Curt Lemon stepped on a rigged mortar round and he was instantly killed. After Curt Lemon’s death Rat Kiley wrote a letter to Curt’s sister and she never wrote back, and Rat was pretty upset. Tim shares with us that mourning Curt Lemon was difficult because he didn’t know him real well. So he told us a story about Curt and “The Dentist”. A dentist had come to camp and Curt was extremely scared to death of dentists and so after he passes out when the dentist calls him in, he later goes to the dentist’s tent later that night and has the dentist pull out a perfectly good tooth. Also Kiley tells us a story about how on one of his first missions a person in his troop by the name of Mark Fossie bought his girlfriend Mary Anne to Vietnam and she adapted to Vietnam really quickly. At the end of the story we learn that Mary Anne has died and “become one with the land”