First Days in Vietnam

Today I arrived in Vietnam I learned fast that it was very hot and it was going to take me quite a while to get used to the change in climate.  We were sent out on our first patrol around camp, I was walking with Jenkins talking about life back home, when I heard a loud boom.  When I realized what just happened I saw Jenkins laying on the ground with a piece of metal protruding from his chest, he had just stepped on a landmine set by the Vietcong.  This was very disturbing for me to watch someone I was having conservation with get killed by a piece of shrapnel, as they told me to get a bag I ran back to the camp and got a body bag.  When they zipped up the bag it really made me think about writing mama to tell her how someone in my company had died and how I was glad it wasn’t me.  But then I realized that I shouldn’t make my mother worry.  When I finally got back to camp I just wanted to go home and forget about what I just saw, then me and Perry got to talking about were we thought we would get sent next.