BY Button Pusher
He woke with a start and tried to open his eyes. Only the left one opened. He reached up with a bandaged right hand and felt around his head, which was splitting with pain. There was another bandage over his right eye and wrapped around his head. His left hand was okay, and he felt around his head and upper body for other injuries, trying to remember what happened. It came back very slowly and in pieces. He had been up on that hill overlooking the bridge. Paratroopers and Russians. He shot some of those Russians. He remembered that for sure. Then the Chinese tanks arrived and, oh. He and that Airborne sniper had been blown up by one of the tanks on the bridge. But how was he here and where was that sniper that was with him?
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