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thedrifter
07-20-02, 10:10 AM
Remnants of a Vietnam Diary......




It was that thrill you get when something lost is unexpectedly found. There it was at the bottom of a mildewed old trunk, a victim of years of storage and water damage: my journal and a water stained field jacket with fire station patches sewn on it. It wasn't identified with a fancy title or bound in red leather. It was an old spiral bound note book, the cardboard cover long since destroyed, the wires of the binder rusting a reddish, old blood color onto the pages.

I take the journal into my bedroom and lay it carefully on the bed as you would a sick old person. I will take care of it to get out the memories. Flesh them out of the destroyed paper. Make them live again one last time. Give shape to my fears. And, yes, texture to my passions.

I'll write this stuff here.

—Mamie

so read more..............

http://www.mamievandoren.com/apocalypse.html

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Sempers,

Roger