Word: jessie
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...tried to fix it, but he failed and just threw it back to her in frustration. She held it like a soldier would, but she might as well have been back in West Virginia, playing war with pop-guns. They had just crawled back to the humvee when Jessi heard a single, sharp gunshot, then silence, then the gunfire began to chatter, coming closer...
...Jessi and Lori stood back to back, because it just felt safer that way. They joked, or tried to, because they were so scared. As hard as she tries now, Jessi cannot remember what they said. It was something silly, something about not getting shot...
...heard Sergeant Robert Dowdy give the order to lock and load. Jessi grabbed the slide on the side of her M-16, tugged it back and tried to chamber a round. It jammed. She had cleaned it every day, but the grit had swirled in through the truck's windows all day and clogged it again with grime. She snatched at it, trying to eject the jammed cartridge...
...They were killing us," Jessi said...
...Chaos," Jessi said. "It was like being in a bad dream. You just want to wake up and have everything back like it was. But you can't wake up." Jessi remembers dark, bearded faces and words she could not understand, and the clattering sound of the AK-47 and the deafening crack of the American assault rifles in the cab of the humvee as Dowdy, Sergeant George Buggs and Specialist Edward Anguiano returned fire...