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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 [...] Before long, I stumbled upon some very unusual looking buildings, which immediately grabbed my attention, but no more than the tug I’d felt at the back of my jumper. “Excuse, please,“ I heard this tiny voice say. Spinning around, I was greeted by a young Japanese woman with a smile on her face that almost [...] “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 [...] I knew very little about Vietnam, except that US troops were being deployed there to halt the spread of Communism. While I had no qualms with this goal on the surface, underneath I simmered in a pot of emotional uncertainty that seemed to contradict this a priori assertion. At the time, I was unable to [...] Forced by a lack of sufficient funds to rely upon the mercy of the military to get me back to the mainland, I managed, after a brief wait—in military parlance—of several hours, to land a seat, for next to nothing, on an old turboprop destined for San Bernardino, California. There I hoped to catch, without [...] |
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