While I had certainly reached a low point in my life, I had not the slightest clue as to how I could escape this black hole. Caught up in the vortex of this hell, I cried out in anguish one night, “O God, please help me, for I’m at my wits end. I must get [...]
“Only when the individual and the collective realize their indebtedness to each other will we tear down the iron curtain that so divides our collective psyche. As the collective must put everything it possesses into the development of the individual, so must the individual give back to the collective all it has given him. Only [...]
I hadn’t heard from my girlfriend back home since I had arrived onboard the ship, three or four weeks ago, until I found a letter from her lying on my bunk. As my heart leapt within my chest, I grabbed the letter and tore into it. Dear Butch, Sounds like you don’t think too much [...]
And so did I begin to feel as if service to my country was more of a disservice to myself. Burdened with the small-mindedness and petty tyranny of lost souls, I found nothing here which even remotely appeared to build character. Instead, I felt as if I were being used by a bunch of self-serving [...]
“For four long years,” began my new-found friend, a rebellious intellectual from Boston, Massachusetts, “I’ve struggled against becoming an animal like the rest of these poor bastards. Next week when I walk off this ship for the last time, I’ll have prevailed.” “I know the feeling,” I interjected. “From the first day of my enlistment,” [...]
