This chapter is the shortest in this memoir, merely a scene. Alpha Company comes upon a small village where an elderly blind Vietnamese farmer sits beside a well. The old man greets the soldiers, telling them again and again, "good water for good GIs". The old man ingratiates himself with the soldiers, laughs with them, and helps them to bathe, as if his survival depends on it. Even the children give back rubs and clean their weapons. But.....
