Report No.13

Science Fiction Short Story: Horror

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It was March 1956. Our superiors had just briefed us that the rising tensions in Vietnam could result in our unit’s involvement against the Vietcong. Officers and Captains sat all of us down in a room to highlight the country’s jungle and mixed forest landscapes. All of the high eucalyptus trees, low clusters of rice paddies, bishop woods, Formosan gums, and other vegetation in the area before they…