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Just a Boy. One of the wounded that Torres didn't find was Pfc Toby Braveboy, 24, a light-haired part-Cherokee rifleman from-of all places-Coward, S.C. Hit by three bullets, Braveboy didn't dare call for a medic, for the North Vietnamese were prowling close by. So he crawled toward the sounds of fighting. When North Vietnamese approached, he played dead. He was once so close to the Reds that when they decapitated a wounded American trooper, blood squirted all over him. Crawling on, he made it to a small creek...
Finally, on the seventh day, a bubble-nosed H13 Sioux helicopter fluttered close by. Braveboy unwrapped his hand and waved the bloody shirt for all he was worth. The chopper swung in overhead and dropped a cardboard box of C-rations. In it was turkey loaf, and only then did Braveboy realize that it was Thanksgiving...
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