Mick Lyons

Contains strong language.

I was on patrol my last morning in Vietnam. And I was walking point again, that morning and... a young kid with an AK-47The AK-47, an acronym for Avtomat Kalashnikova, is an assault rifle first developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov in 1947. It is gas-operated and clip-fed with a caliber of 7.62 millimeters, used for automatic or semiautomatic fire. The AK-47 remains the most widely used assault rifle in the world.
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< http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ak-47 > and black pajamas popped out in front of us and started to raise the gun. And I blew his face off. ... But in less than 2 days, I know that for a fact, I was back in Pipe County Illinois hugging my mom. So you get back to the world and you're going, oh shit, this is great. And you go to bed and you got a full stomach, you know, your parents hit you over the head yet with, are you a drug addict, but they will. You go to bed and you sleep, you wake up, you sleep, you wake up, you sleep. And your mother does something she's never done before, she comes upstairs and she touches you on the foot in the morning. And you've got her by her fucking throat and you're about to kill her. And the monster comes out, and it's that fast. And she's squeaking... 'Michael...', your name. And you clear. Whoa, I'm.... you know, what do you do? What do you do? You cannot turn from being what you had been trying to do into Joe Public in less than two days.