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Re: Help with question re accidental death on Vietnam era base

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On Fri Jul 31, Daniel wrote
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>I’m a fiction writer doing some research for a piece and was hoping some Vietnam vets could help. The opening of the story involves an accidental killing at a military base in the late 60s or very early 70s. For various reasons not worth getting into here, there are two people present--one accidentally kills the other with a rifle. I’m not sure how to make it realistic that these two could be alone in the room handling rifles. Where exactly on the base could they be, and why would they be there? And where would the rest of the soldiers/recruits be? (It doesn’t matter if they’re Army or Marines, and they could be in basic training, more advanced training or simply soldiers on base). Thanks in advance for the help.

I'm sorry, to me it seems totally against what I see this website being used for. You're asking those who survived true hell to share from those intimate experiences to help create a story that is fabrication and untrue. It's too close to those who for some reason enjoy saying they fought horendous battles in Vietnam when in reality they were never there or their battles were fought from behind a desk in the protected rear areas. I'm too sensitive to honoring those who did die to contribute the terrible knowledge of their deaths for the irreverance of fiction.

They were real kids who left real grieving parents, frineds and families in situation just like ours. I can't treat them any other way.

Mon Aug 3

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