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Essays
… was constantly under observation by the NVA, and we did not come or go without their knowing it. Mostly we stayed inside … scout, Mike Bylinoski, was hit in the head by shrapnel and died on the medevac chopper. The one time I went outside our … wounded or crippled, or get killed. I must tell you also that it embarrasses me to say some of these things. No …
… nine thousand Y. M. C. A. secretaries, and fourteen soldiers. But as I look back on it now I remember seeing only … they are not worth remembering after thirteen years. With a comrade I arrived a bit late, and in order to see over the … the center of interest. There were hordes of French generals, the sunlight gleaming on the golden oak leaves …
… himself, for help, asking How long? What road? Will I die like this, choking on dust, coughing blood, shuffling my … names fade, one by one, into the dark beyond the window. 261-262 By Len Roberts …
… After Giles learned the letters, he ate them, and they become both a literal and metaphoric part of his being. Next … a hornbook on which he inscribed a syllabary. The hornbook also quickly disappeared, for when Gaffer Gingerbread … a 19th-century Giles Gingerbread. Although James Murray’s diet was more substantial than Giles’s sugared texts, he too …
… from How Beautiful the Beloved * Doesn’t the soldier serve The state? Isn’t that his Or her job? Doesn’t He … we had to be morbid. The Book said the beloved died, But also that she comes again, That he’s reborn as words. The Book said: …