Summary

Chapter 7: The unit medic, Jamal, comes by to hand out malaria pills and tells Richie he heard they shot three VCs that day. Richie argues that only one was killed and Jamal says the report he read said three. Richie thinks about his friend Howard in New York and remembers how he used to send Howard mail a lot when Howard went to prison for a few years. Richie decides he will write Howard a letter and hope for one in return. The guys playing volleyball return and tell Richie they won. Richie tells Walowick about the report saying three were killed and Walowick says he doesn’t care what it says as long as it is someone on the other side dying.

Richie thinks back to a night in Harlem. He remembers it was past 11 p.m. and he was walking home. He passed...