Beaufort Page #2

dispersed over the guard posts,

to attract fire.

Are you serious?

What happened?

Did you talk to it?

That's good.

It means they're doing

their job, no?

Okay, let's go up,

I'll show you the road.

A bit to the right...

Arnoon. The device exploded

exactly in the middle.

On the curve.

Can you see it?

Sorry about earlier,

at the observation post.

I shouldn't have yelled

at you like that.

It's okay.

What did your commander

tell you when you spoke to him?

That it has to be done.

There's no alternative.

And that I should be careful.

Look, I wasn't trying

to get out of the job, earlier.

I spent a year at HQ,

waiting for this.

Yeah, but come the moment of

truth, your balls start shaking.

That's the way it is.

No way around it.

My balls aren't shaking.

I said what I did

because it's really dangerous.

What exactly are you

going to do there?

We go together

to the evaluation point,

I observe the device

and then go in,

with a medic behind me.

I make sure there's no trip wire

or device that could explode,

and if not, I go to the device,

dismantle it and take it with me.

Did they drill you on this?

Dozens of times.

And what if the device

explodes?

It's not supposed to.

Tell me, do your parents

know you're here?

Of course not.

What for?

They know I'm on the northern

border, but not inside Lebanon.

My mother hasn't known

where I am since I was nine.

Afraid to ask.

And you?

If my dad knew I was here, he'd

come and take me out by force.

I'm serious. He wouldn't

let me out of the house.

So you guys are serious

lefties, then?

Did you know they didn't even

need to take this mountain?

Had they waited until morning,

the terrorists would have run.

They could've come up

without battle or casualties.

You could say that

about any battle.

The fact is that the troops

fought here like men.

They even issued an order not

to conquer, not to come up here.

Oh yeah?

So why did they?

No one knows to this day. Somehow

the order disappeared into thin air.

Impossible.

My uncle was killed here in '82.

My mother's brother.

What, in the conquest battle?

From what I gather, fifty meters

from where we stand now.

Caught a bullet

as he entered the fort.

So what are you doing here?

Are you insane?

If I was your father, I wouldn't

let you out of the house either.

I'd tie you to the refrigerator,

or something.

I've been hearing stories about

this mountain my entire life.

I had to see it.

To be able to say I was

here, before we leave Lebanon.

You should have told me.

I'd have sent you pictures.

Relax,

we're not leaving so soon.

I bet your kids

will still be here.

Maybe, as tourists.

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