TIM THORNE
Alabama
"I got my kills, I'm coming down. I just love my job."
— Sergeant James Anyett, US 1st Infantry, Fallujah, 2004
- Last year it was whitetail in Barbour
County,
- the smell of pines and blood sweet as
youth.
- Daddy got my first kill mounted
- as a 21st birthday present.
- When my three littl’uns grow up
- I’ll take them to where the breeze
off Lake Eufaula
- makes you glad to be an Alabamian
- and teach them manhood, teach them
- about the subtle differences between
- Remingtons and Winchesters.
-
- There are no longleaf pines here, no
yellowhammers,
- but I’ve got my buddies; I’ve
got better gear
- than back home even and I’m being
paid.
- Bagged five this morning. Goddam shame
- they won’t let you take them home as
trophies.
- Although a couple were undersize and one
was pregnant,
- but those’re just as hard to hit as
the big buck towelheads.
- They were going to bring in mortars, but
I said:
- Dude, give me the sniper rifle. I can
take them out.
- I’m from Alabama.
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