NARRATIVE of WARD COURIER/CONFERENCE with TEAM 8, Continued

April, 2012

BUFFALO, NY

"You got hit, too," I said.

He splayed the middle and index fingers of his left hand into the peace sign and tapped the tips to his lower left chest. "Dented my Kevlar. Put two holes right through the shirt I was wearing like drops of acid. I could put my fingers right through them." He inclined the tips toward me, showing me the spacing.

My eyes must have gone in ...