Comics on Larry's Army letters... 2 of 3

My brother wrote about the weather a LOT in his Army letters home. The heat in Alabama was turned up in the spring of 1967 to get him and his buddies ready for the jungle, he was convinced. The rain didn't compare though. Monsoons are an enemy force of their own. No joke.

Here's what Larry said about them:

The monsoon season is starting, and it don’t just rain, it pours. I have to sleep in my ship now because I slept in my tent last night and I got soaking wet.

Ever since the monsoon season started, the VC have been raising hell.

Here's what I added:

Monsoon rain fell so loud you would have to yell at the guy beside you to hear anything and fell from the sky so long you forgot what the sun looked like. The ground in Vietnam stayed saturated for an entire season, where raindrops didn’t even get the chance to hit the ground once the rains started. A constant pool of water kept a soldier’s feet soaked, and high humidity added to the rancid smells of burning feces mixed with soot, smoke, and human decay.