Very good job. You make this soldier so human. Great job exploring his conflicts; wanting to be safeyet wanting to do his duty; wanting to live, but fearing what life as a coward would be like.

One typo I caught: "To loose all hope" should be "To lose all hope."

Well done.

That was a great piece. I just finished watching ID4, but had to go back and watch that scene after reading this. Good stuff.

*siffle* Amazing. Totally amazing. You had my friend and I almost in tears (and that takes alot). I love the 'Hail Mary'. It adds so much to the story. PLEASE write more soon. I finished all the rest of your fics and they're frikken addicting! LIke a drug...or coffee ^_^

not registering under any circumstances, am I?
A fun short story, I think. The Hail Mary running through the fic was pretty.
I'm a fan of the punctuation tricks and cool spacing- possibly a consequence of my enjoyment of fiction dying until it was brought back by reading poetry. I'm not sure, I guess poetry is the saving grace for many writers, too. Luckily, you don't use it to the extent that I do, so I'm sure we have nothing to worry about in that area.
I'm actually searching for something to criticize, though. The closest I can get is diction, sometimes gets redundant (but might be necessary for the soldier's point of view).
A+, good story silver. :-)

Nice. I like it a lot.^_^

okay, not bad, actually I like it a bit. Oh, you remember me? One of the two who should 'learn english' I believe that those were your words. Okay, really, I don't care if you correct stories with puncuation problems or whatever, but the language COULD use some work pal. You were a bit over the top in that way so yeah, brush up on that. Anyway, kagome can actually write good stories if you would care to see another side of it. I'm not about to go into this with you because either way it is none of my business. However, before you criticize my work please read it first. Then you can correct me all you want. A fair chance is all I ask.

This is the most beautiful piece I've ever read.
The way you worked the Hail Mary in with it is excellent, every bit of it aligning with the story superbly. You write so well, too. You can bring out emotions on things better than I've seen some professional writers try to do. And the way you can take the seemingly most insignificant character from something, this being one of the soldiers at Area 51 durring the alien attack in Independence Day, and expand them, creating their personality, their mind set, their entire being, as if you already knew them... it's awe-inspiring.
Also, the way you've presented this helplessness against the world, and the strive to protect innocence within that, to the point of self sacrafice, is great. Especially the mention of the uselessness of the M-16 and the curse of the ear pieces brings out the way that we are given so much to get along in the world, and fight against these evils that bombard us... though they become ineffective, or worse...
I can see alot of stuff in here that link alot of the feelings of helplessness and strive to preserve what is left of purity to you, quite possibly much more than you'd like to admit. In fact you've said that every work is a reflection of the author's soul...
I love this work.

Hi, i read your review to someone about how you were looking for hp/gw crosover stories adn I was wondering if this sounded familiar. Quatre Heero and harry are all brothers and Quatre is the oldest Heero the youngest and Harry the middle child, all my favorites got erased adn I can't think/find the name of the story. If you have heared of it could you please tell me, by the way thsi was a great story

wow...lemme guess, this scene is only about a minute long...and yet you pull from it this amazing insight into a persons psyche! how do you do that?? its incredible, and it makes me want to watch independance day!

Hey! ^^ Lol, this turned out to be a real beauty! ^^ It contains real, raw thoughts and emotions and it makes me want to see the movie... Hmm... I need to bug my family about going to Hollywood Videos.
Heh, I'm not at all offended by relgion if it's not forced down my throat. I think you incorporated the Christian Prayer quite well ^^ And this teaches a great lesson... it brings tears to my eyes and I haven't even seen the movie yet! ^^; *hugs* I love it Liz.