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Of Love and War and Donna Lynn
Date: 8/31/2015, Categories: Historical, Author: RumpleForeskin, Rating: , Source: LushStories
It was another turbulent day in the summer of 68. Student protests raged from the Sorbonne to Berkeley. In the US, civil rights demonstrations and anti-war rallies were turning violent. Martin Luther King was dead; Bobby Kennedy would be soon. In South Vietnam, hundreds of other Americans were being killed each month. Soldiers patrolled the streets of Saigon, Paris, and Washington while Soviet troops prepared to invade Prague. But in the outskirts of a nameless village south of Chu Lai, a young US soldier had thoughts for nothing but the picture in his hand. The long legged brunette looked at him from the photo with an impish, inviting smile as she leaned against the door of a familiar, ’62 Chevy Bel Air. One hand held a set of keys against her freckled cheek while the other seemed to toy with the almost, but not quite, unfastened snap of impossibly skimpy cut-offs. In between, an unbuttoned olive-drab, US Army fatigue shirt was spread just wide enough to give a teasing glimpse of the swell of her firm young breasts. The soldier holding the photo smiled. He’d taken the picture. It was his shirt, his car and, most importantly, his girl. Not for the first time, it occurred to Mack Floyd that there were better places to be and things to do than play soldier here in Vietnam. His first choice being the back seat of his car, making love with the girl in the photo, Donna Lynn Riser. He was tired of death; tired of trying to kill unknown men who kept trying to kill him. He wanted ...