He stood alongside the Hummer looking at the water in the canal.

There was a thump in the distance. “Did you hear that?” has driver asked. “Was that an impact or shot out?”

He turned to get back to the Hummer. Whatever it was, he would be safer behind armor. There was a crackle. “Ooh, fireworks,” he thought. He turned around before it dawned on him that Iraqis didn’t celebrate the Fourth of July.

“Did you see that? That was the sea-whiz! They shot it down!”

“We really got to get out of here now,” his gunner said. He agreed.

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