It has been a few weeks now and I really don’t want to be here right know i would way rather have stayed at home with the people I love.  The other day I was sent on patrol with Perry we were out all night and we managed to kill one Vietcong, but when we returned to base camp Jamal informed Perry and Me that Captain Stewart reported three kills for the patrol despite we only killed one.  There isn’t a day that goes by were I don’t worry about being killed by a mine or a Gook.  I had to write a letter to Earlene on Perry’s behalf because, since it’s too painful for him to write it himself.  Also the other day Perry was sent on a mission with Charlie comp. and they killed a dozen of our own men, he is very troubled how there deaths are a result of such carelessness.  It’s a very scary place here in Nam all I wish now is that I don’t end up getting killed by our own people.  In this war we never do know who we really are fighting.