[Monterrosa-24]

There was an evening in El Salvador in 1989 where I witnessed tracers going ground to ground back and forth, air to ground, and ground to air. And to top it off mortar-launched parachute flares were illuminating parts of San Salvador. It was quite a spectacle viewed relatively safely from a quiet neighborhood.

[PotatoHeadMick]

As a five-year-old, my mother held me up to the open window of my grandmother’s bathroom so I could watch an attack on the British Army’s Bligh’s Lane base in Derry Northern Ireland on a summer evening in 1972.

It was certainly something any small boy would enjoy, watching a stream of tracer fire whizzing into and bouncing off the compound and listening to the crack-thump of the British SLR’s (the rifles used in this movie) as the Brits returned fire.