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©2006-2009 *jevinart
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The date is December 11, 1969. A young soldier, fresh out of boot camp, takes his first steps down from a chopper and into the jungles of Vietnam. At that very moment, the innocence of youth is stripped away forever, replaced with the life-and-death struggle of instantaneous manhood. Amid the magenta-colored fog of war, our hero assesses his new predicament, and the dangerous journey ahead of him. He pauses for a moment as the true realization hits him with brutal force – and everything familiar he has known throughout his life disappears on the wind; fading like the whir of rotors from the departing choppers, leaving with their cargo of wounded and fallen comrades…

(Honored with a Daily Deviation spot, Sunday, June 4, 2006)

Daily Deviation

Given 2006-06-04

The realism of a cold hard reality. Journey Into War by *jevinart portrays a jarring, rude awakening that many in the armed forces encountered on a daily basis. (Suggested by ~orpheas and Featured by `Aeires)

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