Exact excerpt is given in the second paragraph. It is the correct answer because it describes the Vietnam war and the excerpt shows how it is inevitable because it would finally happen one day. How people feels about the news creates a visual imagery in the mind of the reader.
No wonder everyone became a luck freak, no wonder you could wake at four in the morning some mornings and know that tomorrow it would finally happen, you could stop worrying about it now and just lie there, sweating in the dampest chill you ever felt.
Dispatches is a story about soldiers who went to war in vietnam. since you provide no options, there is an excerpt form dispatches when the soldiers feel surrounded by viet's soldiers at night. The character feels that they were heavily outnumbered and soon will be killed.
