Who accidentally set off a flair that exposed Perry’s squad to attack by the VC?
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Perry is amongst the platoon members who travel to the ambush location, which is a cemetery just outside the hamlet they visited on their pacification mission. Monaco is the point person and watches the path ahead of their hidden location. While they are waiting, Perry thinks about what is happening at home in Harlem at that very moment - parties are getting started and Kenny is fighting with their mother about bedtime. He wonders what his mother thinks about the allotment checks from the military. Perry then starts to question why he joined the army in the first place. Later, he thinks about how being a virgin felt like a big deal back home, but in Vietnam it does not seem to matter as much.
Somehow the Viet Cong make it past Monaco, and the American soldiers hear Vietnamese voices even though Monaco has not sounded an alarm. The startled Americans begin shooting at the Viet Cong, who return fire. As soon as the soldiers realize that Lieutenant Carroll has been hit, they start shooting with an unbridled vengeance to avenge their fallen leader. The platoon evacuates when the American choppers arrive and spray the town with bullets, killing everyone - civilians and Viet Cong alike. The helicopter carrying Lieutenant Carroll goes straight to the medical clinic at Chu Lai, but nothing can be done. Monaco leads the squad in a prayer for their “fallen angel.”