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A Break from the Bush The South China Sea drives in another herd. The volleyball's a punching bag: Clem's already lost a tooth & Johnny's left eye is swollen shut. Frozen airlifted steaks burn on a wire grill, & miles away machine guns can be heard. Pretending we're somewhere else, we play harder. Lee Otis, the point man, high on Buddha grass, buries himself up to his neck in sand. "Can you see me now? In this spot they gonna build a Hilton. Invest in Paradise. Bang, bozos! You're dead." Frenchie's cassetteplayer unravels Hendrix's "Purple Haze." Snake, 17, from Daytona, sits at the water's edge, the ash on his cigarette pointing to the ground like a crooked finger. CJ, ^svho in three days will trip a fragmentation mine, runs after the ball into the whitecaps, laughing. *7 ...

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