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Miriam Pearson posted a condolence
Sunday, April 9, 2023
"Mortality Discovered" written by a veteran, a true short story as a young soldier in Vietnam.
Mortality Discovered
By Steve Pearson
Terror is real; I know because it came and sat on my lap one afternoon in 1968 Vietnam. We were flying Lobo Resupply. This was not a fun mission. Ferrying military supplies to artillery bases is hot and dusty work.
Lobo Resupply was the US Army's version of UPS. We used olive drab helicopters rather than olive drab trucks. After several trips from Chu Lai, we decided to stop for lunch at Landing Zone Betty. These LZ's were situated on small hills. Coastal Vietnam has them scattered along the plain like loaves of bread left by a careless baker on a table. Contentedly eating my lunch, while sitting in the cargo door of my ship, I was unaware that life was anything other than good.
Suddenly, inexplicably, in an explosion of sand and gravel, a little gray-green metal tree sprouted from the ground at my feet. I didn't know what it was, and didn't figure out until the first nearby explosion helped explain it to me. Mortar rounds were falling all over the top of zone Betty. I knew what to do, but I could not move. Terror had reduced a trained soldier into a non-functioning lump of human protoplasm.
I looked at the unexploded mortar round at my feet and screamed. Grabbing my gear, I moved out to the perimeter where I should have been long before. As I lay there marveling at my luck, I realized that little brown brother had forgotten to arm the mortar round before launching it. I was alive because a simple action had been forgotten. My round, the one with my name on it, hadn't exploded. It was the only one to hit Betty that didn't explode.
During the rest of that long day, I thought: I am mortal-I can die-I will die, but not this time, not today. I had discovered my mortality as a fact, not an abstract thought. This was a frightening reality that has never gone away.
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