CHAPTER NINETEENThe battalion lifers still wanted one last battle before leaving the country, so running up a body count became their top priority. Some of the pacifists would say that their strategic game of toy soldiers was quickly ending, so it was an opportunity to make the headlines and go home in style.
As it turned out, each company’s final mission was to revisit whichever area had resulted in their highest body counts during the last four months. It was ironic that they did not consider the fact that these companies also lost many men in the same battles.
Alpha Company would revisit the area where they lost Zeke. The majority of the lower-ranking soldiers did not even know they were back in that same area of operations, because all of the terrain they patrolled looked the same. I
