Word: hayfield
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...came with the stumbling, heavy-footed steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...
...student in the hayfield or the stockroom it was a personally relevant war. If you were a reservist living in a number of states or holding a number of ratings this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...
...came with the stumbling, heavy-footed steps of the funny papers' drunken husband (reeling home at two a.m. with shoes in hand): the neighbors tried not to notice. But war was there, a large black fact somewhere to the west, and whether you were sweating in an Indiana hayfield or pitching into the cold Atlantic swell, or addressing packages in a musty New York stockroom the war existed for everyone as a thought, or a hope, or a dread...
...student in the hayfield or the stockroom it was a personally relevant war. If you were a reservist living in a number of states or holding a number of ratings this was a simple one-two relevance the war called you and you want to it. If you were between 18 and 25, unmarried, strong of body and sound of mind, there was perhaps a year, as best, intervening between one and two. No matter who you were, this distant, limited war was there a fact...