Carly (2009)
“The announcer was summarizing that day’s UN ultimatum to Saddam Hussein. The Iraqi dictator had been ordered to withdraw before January 15, 1991, or face retaliation.
Chilled inside, Carly listened stone-faced as the male members of her platoon jeered Hussein.
“It won’t be long till we show him what’s what!” whooped Mr. Smarty Sparkplug, who was really Joe from Indianapolis.
“We leave in six days,” Sergeant Haskell announced unexpectedly, looking the happiest Carly had ever seen him....
There was a stunned silence, and then all the males broke into large grins. Carly wondered if her own very different state, one of numbness, was just plain fear or if it was the result of sleepless nights and her loss of Aunt Kitty just weeks before.
Was their contrasting eagerness for battle just a male thing?
She forced a slight smile, trying to act as if she shared her male counterparts’ enthusiasm for deployment.MoreLess
Chilled inside, Carly listened stone-faced as the male members of her platoon jeered Hussein.
“It won’t be long till we show him what’s what!” whooped Mr. Smarty Sparkplug, who was really Joe from Indianapolis.
“We leave in six days,” Sergeant Haskell announced unexpectedly, looking the happiest Carly had ever seen him....
There was a stunned silence, and then all the males broke into large grins. Carly wondered if her own very different state, one of numbness, was just plain fear or if it was the result of sleepless nights and her loss of Aunt Kitty just weeks before.
Was their contrasting eagerness for battle just a male thing?
She forced a slight smile, trying to act as if she shared her male counterparts’ enthusiasm for deployment.MoreLess
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