Just hours before the attack on Ifs, one terrified young soldier, no older than eighteen, who had just arrived with the look of a man sentenced to death row ended up in the slit next to Jimmy Bennett and Elie Desormeaux. Even in his high-strung state, Bennett reached out to offer some comfort to the teenager. Seeing someone worse off than him had a calming effect on him, and he told the terrified teenager, “Don’t worry about it, you stick with me. I’ve been here for quite a while, and I’m not dead, and I intend to keep living.” No sooner had he extended the hand of camaraderie and friendship
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