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Intolerable Ache

Later that evening, I sat down to write Mary a let­ter, with the inten­tion of telling her about the dif­fi­cul­ties I’d had in deal­ing with my own sex­u­al­ity. Afraid that she might think less of me if I told her … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Harsh and Dreadful Thing

The fol­low­ing morn­ing, I found myself back out at sea. As my mind went wan­der­ing off, after some stray thought about Mary, it sud­denly occurred to me that I’d been dri­ven ashore, back in Sasebo, by my own desire to … Con­tinue read­ing

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An Underlying Instability

MR. HART: I believe this par­tic­u­lar psy­cho­log­i­cal eval­u­a­tion appears as page thir­teen of the clin­i­cal record. RESPONDENT: Yes, dated 14 April 1967, it reads as fol­lows: This 20-​​​​year-​​​​old, sin­gle SA/​​USN with two years active ser­vice was referred by the Naval … Con­tinue read­ing

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On the Brink of Insanity

It wasn’t until later on that morn­ing that I saw the door inch open, ever so slightly. Hav­ing been ordered to report to the ship­yard dis­pen­sary, I fig­ured they (mean­ing the Navy) wanted to exam­ine me, that is, my body, … Con­tinue read­ing

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How It Feels to Forget about One’s self

In many ways, I was just like the other guys on the ship, for I was still too much into the habit of putting down my feelings—a pat­tern of behav­ior I’d acquired from my step­dad who, in turn, had acquired … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Dif­fer­ent Kind of Sen­tinel by Sir E. J. Drury II A review Hav­ing sur­vived the war in Viet­nam, with­out phys­i­cal injury to him­self, the author “had nonethe­less incurred the deeper wounds of a house divided against itself.” As a child, … Con­tinue read­ing

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