Two marines in 1970 Vietnam receive a dead soldier to store in a refrigerator before his remains are sent back home. War has taken its emotional toll on these young men and they discuss the best way to permanently attach the dead man’s ID tag to him – by stomping his dogtag into his jaw. The man’s corpse was sent to the marines too early: he regains consciousness and awakens, terrified out of his mind. Somehow the exhausted men find humor in a grim close call.
Published in Ten Minute Plays from Actors Theatre of Louisville, Vol. 1.