As we have been drinking for a while we were getting tipsy and were making jokes and laughing. Then we slowly started to have conversation with this I...dian couple, his name was Rahul and she was Janaki. We all were sharing a few conversations about cricket and work. Only then I had a look at this girl, she was in work wear and she looked pretty, they both were husband and wife and they recently moved to Melbourne. Since they recently moved to Melbourne, I volunteered and said if they need any. David got them back to base but every man aboard was wounded ... David more than once. He received his discharge, Navy Cross, Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart on the same day. Then they took back everything except the Hearts. Sure the awards and medals were in his records ... but his records were sealed.The action on the Mekong was the excuse for the hearts ... the boat was not in a place they weren't supposed to be, not doing things they weren't supposed to do and didn't have. She used her foot to pump the bed upwards a few times then returned to the chair and sat softly down.This whole situation had my mind racing. What the fuck was going on? My brain couldn’t act fast enough to process each strange twist and turn. I was now elevated so that when as she sat down on the chair her eyes were at my groin level. My brain was screaming questions at me that I couldn’t answer. Why the fuck did she need me so high up. What the fuck was she playing at?
 I settled myself with. People were spilling onto the road outside and they had to squeeze through steaming, damp bodies to get in. Lucky they were both small. Keeping to the edges they worked their way around to the back of the courtyard, where they could see… everything. They could see through the door into the chapel. They could see the coffin, surmounted by a huge teardrop shaped wreath of white flowers. They could see the heads of the people… down at the front that would be ‘them’… the family. Emma would be made.