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In the silence that overcame me as I refixed my gaze upon the stark panorama, which had unfolded before my eyes, I recalled some vague passage from the Gospel of Luke (12:54-57): “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say immediately that rain is coming—and so it does. When the wind blows [...] Over the next thirty days, I was made to perform the most inane work imaginable, tasks strictly meant to be punitive. Many an evening was I forced to scrub oily decks down in the bilges, on my hands and knees, with an old brush and can of scouring powder. Or worse yet, was I made [...] After what seemed like an eternity, the door to the stateroom suddenly burst open. In walked an older officer, whom I had never seen before. A hefty though fleshy gentleman, he introduced himself as the ship’s Chaplain. “What’s your name, son?“ he asked reassuringly. “Drury, Sir,“ I responded as I wondered what tack he’d take. [...] Having sat there in silence, for a few moments, I finally blurted out, “I didn’t know what else to do. I was so disappointed by the Navy’s failure to satisfy the insatiable longing for self-fulfillment, that has afflicted me since puberty, I could not bear the additional pain of the remorse I felt after having [...] Just then, the Corpsman popped back into sick bay. “I want ya to come with me,“ he commanded. “Your division officer, Lt. Smith, would like to see ya in his stateroom.“ Nervous as hell, I sprang to my feet and followed him down the passageway, to a ladder that led up to officer’s country. While [...] About the twentieth day of my fast, I woke up feeling light-headed and weak. Not till my heart started fluttering rapidly, as I stood up to get dressed, did I get scared. Scurrying up to the mess decks, I gulped down a glass of fruit juice, with the hope it’d alleviate these symptoms. Instead, I [...] “For four long years,“ Wulf went on to say, “they tried to convince me this way of life is a necessary evil. They almost succeeded until I went to Vietnam, supposedly to stop the spread of Communism, and saw the truth for myself. “It appears they suffer some grand delusion that we are the good [...] |
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