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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 [...] After we’d pulled out of Yokuska, later that morning, I was ordered by the master-at-arms to report, in dress whites, to the Captain’s stateroom for a Captain’s Mast. With my entry into the Captain’s stateroom on the heels of the master-at-arms, I found the XO and a yeoman from the ship’s office already standing by. [...] SENIOR MEMBER: In this psychiatric evaluation of you, the clinical psychologist clearly indicated, at one point, that you had presented no evidence of ever having had any delusions or loosened associations. During the course of your interview then, did you not discuss with him any of the very vivid visual and auditory fantasies you had [...] 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 [...] Due to unforeseen circumstances, I was eventually transferred off the mess decks. Though I’d continued to bathe ’n’ put on clean underclothes daily, it’d been a month since I last changed my pants. Because I had no other pants to wear, I couldn’t throw ’em into the laundry when they got dirty. To protest my [...] “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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