re: Need to Kill Time: What's a story that you've heard that still gives you chills

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A Vietnam veteran came to speak to my English class, and told us this story: So it was during one of the town raids where everybody is shooting everything. He walked into a bar, and behind the bar he saw two women, who he went over to try and help. He heard a crunching noise behind him, turned around, and a third woman with a machine gun shot him in the chest. He said he remembered hearing another gun shot as he was falling over. So he goes to a hospital, gets all fixed up, and comes back home. Fast forward 18 years, he's in line buying coffee, and he hears a woman in front of him speaking Vietnamese. He could also speak Vietnamese, so he understood her, and he responded to one of her comments with some snarky pun. She turns around, it's the same woman that shot him in the bar, with one of her friends who was behind the bar. He insisted to buy her coffee, and as they say together, he asked why she did it. She said "I was being hunted on both sides, everyone wanted to kill me, so I just shot. Didn't matter who it was." They talked more and discovered that the gun shot he heard was his friend who tried to save him by shooting her. She was in the exact same hospital as him, but one level up, and then she moved to the same suburb he lived in in America. He was crying by the end. I always get the chills.

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