Word: darknesse
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I felt this was my duty, my sole duty: to reconcile the irreconcilables, to draw the thick ancestral darkness out of my joins and transform it, to the best of my ability, into light.
Friday, August 27--How do you measure the worth of what you're doing? Tonight we jounced over a horrible rutted road to a village about ten kilometers away, to show films. The villagers had been alerted ahead of time, and as we drove in a great cheer went up...
Between the flat, metallic blasts of occasional mortar shells, the only sound in the camp was the rustle of rats shuffling over sleeping men. In the rifle pits behind the sandbagged perimeter of Plei Me, weary defenders sniffed the sour stench of cordite and unwashed clothes and grumbled about the...
The Meat Grinder. The siege of Plei Me began two unsuspected days before the first shot was fired. Up to the triangle-shaped fort 20 miles from the Cambodian border crept sappers from two recently infiltrated North Vietnamese regiments. Working in darkness just 40 yards from the camp's...
Self-sufficiency, it seems, had become her ideal, and in Pale Horse, Pale Rider-a story that tells how she almost died of the flu during World War I-Author Porter describes how she snatched her life, and with it her independence, out of the jaws of death. "Death is...