To fire a shot would have meant certain death. Dying would not have helped a single one laying in the Wadi.
When the trucks moved away Tank and Joker raced, to the riverbed. They rescued the little girl. As they scanned the other bodies lying there, a familiar face emerged from the quicklime. It was Digger.
Panicked and confused Tank’s heart pounded free of his chest. He scrambled to pull him out from the pile of bodies. It was then he discovered Meatwagon, Snake, and Gopher. ISIS captured them a kilometer away and cut them to pieces. His entire squad lay there rotting in the sun.
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The sounds of war vanished away. His splitting headache, no more. Contrary to the laws of nature, he drifts slowly upwards. Then a voice in the distance ahead of him calls.
“Come up here.”
The voice is like the sound of a roaring river. Looking upwards, a door to where, he doesn’t know, opens up before him. Somehow, he feels empowered by his two escorts to walk through that door. A strange quiet fills every corner of that place. All around a brilliant light explodes from everything. The blue of the sky gives way to the purples and gold’s that shine from everything. Wonderful shadows frolic from the walls of jasper’s green. Everything is fluid radiating the light of all kinds of precious stones. The sapphire, the quartz, beautiful emeralds, all add their beauty to the waltz of swirling color. The onyx, the yellowish-green sapphire, topaz, the amethyst, and prisms emit a blinding light.
“Where am I,” he asks over and over again?
Every time he asks, more colors burst into view. There is no fear in that place. All he feels is love and acceptance. He longs to stay there forever. Peace, at last, lasting peace are they truly his?
“I’m dead, but I don’t deserve to come here,” he cries with