2004-12-15 - 8:59 a.m.

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I slide bullets into the machine gun. It's like a machine gun. Maybe it's more of a howitzer, although I think a howitzer points up more. I guess this is a machine gun. I schlep the bullets in and I can hear them rattle through the gun almost as loud as I can hear the shots.

I don't really remember who they're shooting at up there. I'm kind of down in this ditch-type thing. There's a guy who stands in the dirt above me that fires the machine gun. He just keeps firing, all day long, and I keep feeding in the bullets. They're big, nasty, pepsi-can sized things and they rattle all the way through that big motherfucking howitzer. Machine gun.

I scored pretty highly on some test in high school, so one day the military guy came to my house and said "How would you like to load the machine gun?" I said sure, so they flew me in, led me to this ditch, and now I sit here all day sticking these big, loud, bullets into a big, loud machine gun that fires them just as fast as I load it.

I think they're going to move me to a different ditch because I'm doing such a good job.

Jerry (I think that's his name - the guy who fires the machine gun - but I'm not sure since his jacket is covered in gunpowder residue and dust. But I think I heard someone shout "Hey Jerry!" at him once. I can't be sure with all this rattle rattle rattle CRACK rattle CRACK all day long) sometimes shouts "Keep that ammo coming"! I smile up at him and yell "Sure thing, Jerry!". Like he needs to tell me.

My father always said "Be it large, be it small, do it right or not at all". I feel good about my machine-gun loading position. It's hard to do wrong. Once I loaded a bullet backwards (kind of because I was curious about what would happen) and we had to take the gun down and get out the backwards bullet, but we only had to stop shooting for 3 or 4 minutes. I'd say that's pretty good.

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