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ArmyEsq -> RE: DAR Rearguard on Mt Butler (6/13/2015 2:53:06 PM)
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CPT Abe knew that he had to try again. The unit he faced was well disciplined and well led; but there would be no excuse for failure on the battlefield even while his comrades were fighting and dying. He stood, turned, and looked at his men’s eyes. “Fifty soldiers left”, he thought. They looked absurdly young—even to him who was barely 22. Dirty, tired, with hair pasted by sweat to their foreheads. “these are good soldiers” he thought. “You have been brave thus far!” he yelled. “And unrelenting” he continued. Then turning in the direction of the Canadian platoon in front of them, “and that filth has survived your courageous assault only because of the terrain they’ve hidden themselves in!” he said as he peered through the jungle wood line to the rocky ground beyond. “Our brothers have fallen because of them! We cannot now leave this field without victory!” he paused and scanned the fifty faces. “We must attack them, and we must kill them! Without hesitation! Utterly!” He stood taller now, and raised his sword, “Now…we must deliver them death! Banzaii!!!” And 3rd/4th PLT stood in unison, with the absolute discipline of highly trained and experienced men, and uniformly screamed “Banzai!!” with rifles held high, bayonets gleaming…The ten remaining soldiers of 1st/4th PLT also charged quickly through 200 meters of jungle in a rabid state, now falling, now stumbling, recovering, and driving headlong into the rocky ground ahead of them…
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