Kiowa...

It was a horrible place to bed down for the night and everybody knew that. Everyone and Lieutenant Cross knew it and he didn't do sh*& about it. All of a sudden there was noise and gunfire and the muck seemed to absorb everything making things worse. Men were burrowing into the muck because there was no other cover for us, Kiowa being one of them deeper and deeper in the muck until you could no longer see him. He was crouching near a boy or someone. In the morning Kiowa was missing so a search was needed, we searched and we searched until the light was gone and could not search anymore. The next morning one of the men found Kiowa's pack in the muck about where he went under two nights before so from there that spot to the river. In the distance we could see the lieutenant sitting on a rock writing a letter to Kiowa's father writing to tell him that Kiowa is MIA (missing in action). I was in the river searching for Kiowa when I saw a boot wedged in between the rocks in about two feet of water. I grabbed hold and pulled but it was stuck and attached to a upside down body, Kiowa's body. I signaled to Henry Dobbins and Azar to help me pull him free. We found Kiowa and carried him to land where we let the Lieutenant know we had found Kiowa as well as a chopper to take him home to his father. If only I had grabbed his boot to keep him from  sinking in to far its my fault he is dead, If only i had grabbed his boot he would still he alive but its to late for If only and what ifs.