The bullet also broke the window behind Gruber.In the exciting and climactic confrontation, the injured Gruber stumbled backwards and crashed through a pane of glass while holding onto Holly""s arm and metal Rolex watchband, nearly dragging her with him.[However, there were no documented cases or historical reports of he deadly game in actuality.] Whether it is historically accurate or not, the fabricated scene of a Vietcong atrocity metaphorically depicted the brutal absurdity of the war.Eventually, he learns he town""s dark secret, and fulfills the promise he made to present a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism to the farming father of a Japanese wartime buddy who had saved his life in World War II on the battlefields of Italy.When she rides "through lovers"" brains," they dream of love.Whomever she visits, they dream of their greatest desires.If she rides over ladies"" lips, hey dream of kisses.But she also can be angry and mischievious, causing soldiers to be startled awake in the midst of real battle - "sometimes she driveth o""er a soldier""s neck and then dreams he of cutting foreign throats, of breaches, ambuscadoes, Spanish blades, drums in his ear, at which he starts and wakes; and being hus frighted, swears a prayer or two, and sleeps again.