Thursday, 8 January 2015

Stone



His name was Stone.

Or at least, that’s what everyone called him. The name on his dog tags was John Medina. When I got transferred into the squad, I didn’t understand, since almost any other bunch of soldiers he’d be called Funky Cold or Tone or something.

Very quickly though, as we tried to enforce democracy and peace on a land that very clearly didn’t care much for the first and refused the second, I understood why he had that name, as no matter what the hardship, he never showed any emotion, just that same determined stare.

Then he broke.

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