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Thursday, September 30th, 2010

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    12:27a
    It ain't worth working for, 'cause the Army never...
    It ain't worth working for, 'cause the Army never gives you a break anywayHe became sad at this, and thought with a wistful pleasure of how his life had been ruinedI know what the score is, I'm too smart to waste my time trying for anythingWhen I get out of the Army I won't know what to do with myselfI won't be able to work, I'll be a failureAll I'll want is to go around tail-chasingHe turned over on his faceWhat the hell else is there in life? He sighedIt's like Polack says, the only thing to do is to get yourself a racketThis gave him a vindictive pleasure, and he imagined himself in prison, a killer, while tears of pity came into his eyesHe turned over again nervouslyI got to get out of hereHow long they gonna keep me without even looking at me or paying any attention? They gotta move me rolex watches for women outa here soon or I'll really flip my lidThe stupidity of the Army amused himThey're gonna lose a soldier that way, just 'cause they don't give him any care
    He fell asleep, and was awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of voices and the noise of orderlies moving patients into the tentOccasionally he could see the red skeletal outline of a hand covering a flashlight, and once or twice a midgeon of light cast an eerie shadow across a patient's faceWhat's going on? Minetta wonderedHe could hear a man groaning, and the sound formed goose flesh on his scalpThe doctor came in, and talked for a little while with one of the orderlies"Watch the drain on that thoracic, and give him a hypo, twice the usual amount, if he's too restless
    That's all they know, Minetta thought, hypo, hypo, I could be tiffany canada a sawbones myselfHe was watching the scene through half-opened eyes, and he listened cautiously to the conversation between the two patients whose heads were bandagedIt was the first time he had heard them speak"Hey, orderly," one of them was asking, "what's up?"
    The orderly came over to them, and talked for a little while"I hear there was a lot of patrolling today, and these guys just came from Battalion Aid
    "You know if E Company was in it?"
    "Ask the General," the medic said
    "I'm glad I wasn't in it," one of the patients muttered
    "You ain't just a bird-turding, Jack," the orderly said
    Minetta turned overWhat a way to get waked up, he thoughtThere was a patient at the far end of the tent who was weeping with loud thick sounds that seemed to writhe out of his chest and throatMinetta black chanel handbags closed his eyesWhat a setup, he thought disgustedlyHis annoyance was suppressing a great deal of fear; he had become conscious suddenly of the thrumming of the jungle night outside the tent, and he had the childish horror that comes from waking suddenly in the darknessWith the exception of the minor exertions that had been required to use the bed pan under the cot and to eat the food that had been set before him, he had been completely inactive for two and a half days, and it made him extremely restlessI can't take this, he said to himselfThe patient who had been weeping had begun to scream now, and the sounds had such terror that Minetta ground his teeth and held the blanket over his ears"NEEEE-YOWWWWWWW, NEEEEEEE-YOWWWWWRR," the patient wailed, imitating the sound of a mortar, and then he wholesale tiffany screamed again, "God, you got to save me, you got to save me!'
    There was a long silence afterward with no sound at all in the black tent, and then one of the patients muttered, "Another psycho
    "What the hell are we in the loony ward for?"
    Minetta shiveredThat nut could kill me when I'm asleepHis thigh, which was almost healed, began to throbHe pitched restlessly, listening to the crickets and the animals in the brush beyond the tentA few shots were fired far in the distance, and he began to shudder againI will be nuts by morning, he thought, and began to giggle to himselfHis stomach felt empty; he was hungryWhat did I get into this for? he wondered
    One of the new patients began groaning, and lapsed at last into a bubbly coughThat guy sounds bad, Minetta thoughtIt seemed at the moment almost chanel handbags on sale tang

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