The body was sprawled across a patch of Vietnam jungle, lying where it had been cut down by bullets. The enemy was closing in quickly, but Sgt. Nick Martinez couldn’t leave his man behind, even if meant he’d be exposed in an open field. In the midst of a raging firefight, the man known as “Chico” sprinted to the fallen soldier and tossed down his rifle. He tugged at the shoulders, then tried to lift 200 pounds of dead weight. It wouldn’t budge. Snap! A tree branch broke, the same ominous sound he heard so many times in his his first six months in Vietnam. His heart racing, he glanced to his ri…

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