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Bid time return. Somewhere in time. Wish we could. More so with our Superman (to avert that fateful horse-riding accident). To make that left at the fork instead of a right. To come in full circle to live once again in centuries/decades past. The older I get, the more I understand my Dad’s unspoken struggles.…
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I often wonder how publishers manage those tedious spell checking and painstaking editing tasks before automation. To know who were involved in the process of birthing, you just need to flip to the Acknowledgement page. At times, it’s in the beginning pages. Other times, near the end. What if our lives were books? How long…
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Your choice. Make it early. Beyond the binary options, we still have Missing In Action, a designation by the War Department (DoD now) when soldiers, dead or alive, were unaccounted for. Last week, my cousin was laid to rest. Her husband, a Ranger Major, had been a MIA for 47 years. My cousin was accounted…
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47 years since the beginning of the Fall of South Vietnam, since at least 155,000 rushed out on a 168 km to the seas from high ground. Herded, frustrated, trampled and shot upon, by friendly or unfriendly fires. well-meaning or not. Major Hy of the fine Rangers was well-meaning. Last sighted standing tall in his…
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It was around 1963, since I still remember discussing Kennedy’s assassination with Pierre, my Elementary schoolmate. The alley we moved (up) to saw less flooding and afforded me some playmates, many of whom half-breed (French, not yet American until later years). I could tag around with an Indian kid (Ali) three doors opposite or play…
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Last week, under doc’s order, I stayed put at home. Self-treatment from a severe case of poison ivy infection. I watched La Piscine, True Confessions and The Great Gatsby: Alain Delon, Robert DeNiro/Duvall, and Robert Redford. All the leading men. Handsome and iconic men. Must be a case of desperate self-projection, since I could hardly…
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“Life is cheap over there” said someone who were involved in My-Lai massacre, whose anniversary has just come up. The only person who got a sentence, ended up serving it out of his house. Quite a bargain. Innocent until proven guilty. All the young lives, and all the counsels (the Best and the Brightest), forever…
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Pollutants kill. Pandemics kill. But curtailing Climate Change can save some (not to mention Billions of dollars in GDP). Curtailing dis and mis-information on vaccines could have averted many deaths (out of the 1 million we have seen so far). Allow and afford people a back-yard, a hat and a shade as in a Coppola-set…
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On top of the Culture divide, we’ve got the pandemic. On top of the pandemic, we’ve got the inflation. On top of the inflation, we’ve got a war in Ukraine (courtesy of Russia and THE Orthodox Church). On top of the war, we’ve got Climate Change. On top of the heat, we’ve got…oh well, Friday…
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….when I find myself in times, of trouble….Who am I going to call? the Ghostbusters? Mother Mary. Mother. Mom (I can’t breathe). I follow my Mom. You yours. Heck with the war’s end. Heck with the beginning of a nice media career. Mom. Leave no one behind, especially Mom. Yet we did. Out of our…
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