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Most of Platoon's starkest events come from Stone's backpack of Viet Nam memories. "I saw the enemy for the first time on my first night ambush," he recalls, "and I froze completely. Thank God the guy in the next position saw them and opened up. The ensuing fire fight was very messy. I was wounded in the back of the neck -- an inch to the right and I'd have been dead -- and the guy next to me had his arm blown off." He emptied his rifle clip at a man's feet, as Charlie does...
...dead and 175 wounded; we killed about 500 of them. Their bodies were scraped up by bulldozers, just like in the movie. For that battle our platoon was on the inner perimeter, but two weeks later we went back into the same area and got hit by an ambush, like the one that gets Elias. We took about 30 casualties, and I don't think we got one of them...
...hall troupe. He gets in trouble there too, falling for the company's soubrette, stage-named Maggie Paramour, who is married to a violinist in the same motley ensemble. Ellen, by this time nubile and knowing beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After this rude assault, Ellen has an insight about her corporeal self and that of women in general: "A Female Body...
...Philippine General Hospital after receiving treatment for sinusitis and a goiter condition. He was being helped into a car by Josefina Cruz, his wife, and Jose Concepcion, his driver and bodyguard, when the police closed in to arrest the trio. Officials claim that Salas took part in a 1974 ambush in which five U.S. Navy officers were killed. The government last week charged him with rebellion, a crime punishable by death...
William & Mary 14, Harvard 7: Although the Crimson Multiflex will charge into battle, attempting to ambush William & Mary, the Tribe will go on the warpath and scalp the Crimson...