The last few days Wulf was onboard, I clung to him like a pesky fly. I was so needy for a like-minded friend I couldn’t help myself. Buzzing about his head, I picked his brain for any tiny morsel that might help me to survive in this wasteland of dead heads after he was gone. [...]
“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 [...]
“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 [...]
“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,” [...]
I have found that two very different levels of law exist in life and that these two are often at odds with each other, only because the one has been fashioned by imperfect hands, the other by God to show us how to act as human beings should we ever get there. So does the [...]
