I'm heading down the beach in the direction of the smoke. It's not the colour of wood burning...it's much too dark for that. I hear a loud banging noise coming from the distance but I can't make out what it is yet. I slow my pace down and I start moving from rock to rock, looking around me the whole time for any sign of danger. There is something going on ahead of me... I crawl across the sand and on to a rock to see what's happening. That sound...so familiar...I close my eyes and the memories of Iraq come streaming back to me...it's gunfire!! There could be civilization just around the corner! I could be saved...I could be heading home soon!
I start running closer and closer but something primal inside me makes me stop and duck down...why are they shooting? and what are they doing here? I have to know!
I move closer and as I come around the corner I see it!
An army base!!
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