"Sweepy" and the Band-Aids (Part Six)

  "Mr. Sweepy!" Little Ritchie Marcus had been holding all of his questions in like a two year old holding his breath to get his way, and they all burst out at once. "Why didn't they call you by your nickname? Why did they call Floodwatch Floodwatch? You mentioned a guy named 'Shortstop' before, who is he? Why haven't you mentioned him yet? Why is his name Shortstop? And what does any of this have to do with your beef bandage tin!?" Sweepy chuckled heartily. "Woah, wooah slow down thar little feller! I'll get to that part of the story when I get to it!"

VIETNAM 1969

  "Hey Floodwatch," said Dusty, "Don't worry about Sarge, he's just a tough sonofagun." "It's okay man, I can't make him like me, all I can do is take his abuse gracefully, lettin' him know that I couldn't care the slightest that he's yellin' at me. Besides, I could kick his sorry butt in fight." Frostbite gave a humorless chuckle at this. "Nobody can beat Sarge in a fight, not even me." "Sure I can!" exclaimed Floodwatch. "You guys remember that show that used to be on TV?" "Which one Floodwatch?" "The Green Hornet! You know Bruce Lee?" "Was he that Asian guy who played Kato?" "One and the same! I met him!" "Get outta town!" "No man Im serious! I told him how I loved his show and we got to shootin' the breeze and we really hit it off man! Eventually I told him how I got drafted into the army and he said 'You're a good fellow Stachowski, I wouldn't want a nice guy like you getting killed over there, so you want to learn some of what I do?' To which I responded 'Chyeah man! I'll take whatever knowledge you can give me!' We trained together in a style he called 'Jeet Kune Do' which is a form he made himself! Hey, you know he's working on a movie script called 'Enter the Dragon'?" "Wait, is he the dragon or does he fight a dragon or-" "FAAAAAALLL IIIIIIIN!!!!" They were all snapped out of their personal lives and back into reality. They all lined up immediately. Sarge was standing with a short South-Vietnamese man. "This man has been lumped into our unit. His name is Ahn-Toh-Ni Ya-Uung. He's part of our family now. Treat him as such..."