Word: gunship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drove confidently, foolishly, toward Skoun, not looking for the other signs that were all around me. Six kilometers from Skoun, my eye caught a South Vietnamese gunship making lazy circles over what had to be the city. I watched carefully now, but saw only the plane. Then I saw them, out the left window, standing in the heavy underbrush by the side of the road...
...Then the soldiers invited me to show them how Americans crawl. I got down on all fours and promptly split the seat of my pants, and the evening solitude dissolved in laughter. But the humor was short-lived. In the southern sky, a blinking red light told of a gunship's approach. The light from our cai-dens and our laughter died at the same time. Silently we watched the plane pass and then went into our house...