Hennessey began to suspect he had been left... Hennessey began to suspect he had been left alone"Toglio, Corporal Toglio," he called, but it came out in a hoarse croaking whisperThere was no answer; he didn't ask himself whether they had heard himHe was alone, all alone, he told himself, and he felt an awful dread at being so isolatedHe wondered where the others wereHe had never seen combat before, and it was unfair to leave him alone; Hennessey began to feel bitter at being desertedThe jungle looked dark and ominous like a sky blacking over with thundercloudsSuddenly, he knew he couldn't stay here any longerHe got out of his hole, clutched his rifle, and started to crawl away from the hole
"Hennessey, where you going?" Toglio shoutedHis head had suddenly appeared from the hole
Hennessey started,
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"Come back," Toglio shouted
The boy looked at his foxhole, and knew it was impossible to return to itThe beach seemed so pure and open"No, I got to go," he said, and began to runHe heard Toglio shout once more, and then he was conscious only of the sound of his breathingAbruptly, he realized that something was sliding about in the pocket his pants made as they bellied over his leggingsIn a little frenzy, he pulled his trouser loose, let the stool fall out, and then began to run again
Hennessey passed by the place where the flags were up for the boats to come in, and saw the Navy officer lying prone in a little hollow near the jungleAbruptly, he heard the mortars
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Red found him when the platoon was coming back to meet ToglioThey had waited out the shelling in a long zigzag trench which had been dug by a company of reserve troops farther along the beachAfter word had come that the Jap mortar crew had been wiped out, Brown decided to go backRed didn't feel like talking to
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Brown came up behind him, and gazed at the body with a troubled look"Should I have left him behind?" he askedHe tried not to consider whether he were responsible
"Who takes care of the bodies?"
"Graves Registration
"Well, I'm going to find them so they can carry him away," Red said"We're supposed to stick together He stopped, and then went on angrily"Goddam, Red, you're acting awful chicken today, picking fights and then backing out of them, throwing a fit over He looked at Hennessey and didn't finish
Red was walking on alreadyFor the rest of this day, that was one part of the beach he was going to keep away fromHe spat, trying to exorcise the image of Hennessey's helmet, and the blood that had still been flowing through the rent in the
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