CHAPTER 31
There is pandemonium on the knoll but there is no firing. There is firing in the valley. NVA soldiers seem to be everywhere, firing from unseen everywheres. The four squeeze companies are again all being hit. It is as if Alpha has ripped the top off an anthill. 1st Plt is in a line at the knoll’s south crest. 2d and 3d and the CP are coming in, collapsing.
Cherry is sitting beside Egan whom he has cared for since Egan passed out in the trench. Cherry had carried the platoon sergeant to the knoll’s crest, had put him down and had helped set up the perimeter around him. Then he had stripped Egan’s back and legs exposing a dozen holes seeping blood. He had cleaned them one by one as best he could until Doc Mc-Carthy came and bandaged the wounds. Egan had moaned, had come to and p
