Ok, class, I need everyone to calm down,” Gunny said from the front of the room. To him, the popping that they thought might be fireworks had the distinct ring of an AK-47. He quickly made his way to the door to check out what was going on.

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Harv picked her up in the kind of hug she’d always wished for from her father. She could see when she looked at him how proud he was. Karie’s murder had brought the two of them together with a common goal to find the person that had done it.

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“How did you get past the RA?”
“Two cookies and a cupcake. That was not tough at all.”
“Look, Nicole, I don’t want to talk to her right now. I don’t know what I would say, nor what she could possibly say to me,” Jakob said, turning to look at her.

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That was when I saw her… ok, I saw her before we even got onto the boat, and I knew where she was almost every minute since. I wasn’t trying, but she was hard not to notice.

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A moment later he rounded a corner.  He heard the popping of an AK-47, the sound distinct from the M-4s the US and ASF soldiers were using.  He scrambled backwards as several rounds hit his plates, crab walking as fast as he could. 

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“Someone was too macho yesterday to mention that he had broken ribs.  We went to the doctor this morning to get x-rays.  When he was in the shower last night, there wasn’t even a bruise, but this morning, this,”

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