Larry Bassett’s Reviews > Wandering Souls: Journeys With the Dead and the Living in Viet Nam > Status Update

The times, and some of the places, we had been in the war had overlapped, and looking at her face, I knew that if I had seen her there when I was flying as a helicopter gunner, I would have killed her. She had been a target and a threat to me, the ghost under the canopy of leaves, and I had been monstrous and mechanical to her, the sky elementally reconfigured into noise and terror.