Boots, Combat, Tropical
BOOTS, combat, tropical
It’s been longer than twice as many years as they were old when they died.
I can’t remember their names, but I’ll never forget their boots.
Bloody boots.
The First Sergeant displayed them at our orderly room entrance as a reminder. Don’t carry frags inside the truck cab on convoys to Pleiku.
The way I heard it, the guy riding shotgun got hit just as he was tossing a grenade out the window.
Two 18-year-old boys dead.
I can’t remember their names now etched deep in black granite, but I’ll never forget their boots.
BOOTS, combat, tropical.
Nylon ankle reinforcing band.
Vibram sole.
Size 12M.
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