Part 21

‘’Ten years ago in one of the battles, I fought alongside this infantry soldier I was ordered to mentor, we were deep in the heat of warfare. We were shooting from our semi-automatic rifles, when the soldier stopped shooting and turned to me to say that if we shot intermittently without offloading ammunition continually, we would hit more of the enemy. This was because the enemy was on the move as they shot. As I reckoned it the infantry soldier fell a total of fifteen enemy soldiers. In that battle that day, the casualty rate was indeed very high on both sides and the battle did not pass without an official acknowledgement of the bravery of the men of both sides of the opposition. Men had died giving their all to that battle. The loss in lives was indeed great that night.’’