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“Why would he believe me?” “Because he is planning to Because he’s mentally ill, and probably thinks he’s going around with a sign that says PLANNING SUICIDE taped to his backTell him you know he’s been ditching his antidepressantsYou do know that, right? For a factBut telling him to take them never helped before “Did [...]

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He shuddered once moreHe had never seen country like this; it was so barren, forbiddingEven the slopes of jungle and brush above them were cruelHe would never be able to make it today; already his chest ached, and when he slung his pack and began the climb again he would be exhausted in a few [...]

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For the platoon this was the final unbearable distressPerhaps five seconds they stood rooted, flailing dumbly at the hornets that attacked themEach sting lashed through a man’s body, loosing new frantic energies of desperationThe men were in deliriumWyman began to bawl like a child, holding feebly to a rock, and swatting at the air in [...]

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“Are you all right?” “Other than thinking I just saw a dead guy disappear in fucking front of me? I guess so He bent down, picked the blunt cylinder off the floor, and kissed it”Glory be to God for dappled things,” he said, then barked laughter”Even when they’re not dappled It was a candlestickThe tip, [...]

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He bent over the machine gun, and then realized that he didn’t know whether Minetta had cocked it completely or left it half-loadedIt meant that he would have to pull back the bolt and release it in order to be certain, and he was terrified of the noise it would makeHe took up his rifle, [...]

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He bent over the machine gun, and then realized that he didn’t know whether Minetta had cocked it completely or left it half-loadedIt meant that he would have to pull back the bolt and release it in order to be certain, and he was terrified of the noise it would makeHe took up his rifle, [...]

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“Naw, she didn’t lie, but people change, you know “Not her,” Wyman said”It was different with us His voice expressed the frustration he felt at being unable to put his feeling into words Red thought of the mother Wyman would have to support if he married his girl, and he had a quick elliptic knowledge [...]

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There was a mess sergeant over in Charley Company who must have made two thousand of them pounds the way he sold a quart for five poundsAll a man needed was sugar and yeast and some of them cans of peaches or apricotsIn anticipation he felt a warm mellow glow in his chestWhy, you could [...]

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They’s gonna be a revolution, men, I tell ya what we got to do is make a march on Washington Hoover’ll run ya outWhat are ya doin’, kidding yourself, Mac? I can see us marchin’I Love a Parade, the Beat of a Drum’ Listen, boys, I watched it myself right from the beginning, it’s the [...]

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In the midst of his anger, Cummings felt a mild contempt at the way Binner had mangled the sentence “Yes, sir, that’s true,” Sergeant Lanning said “You got the idea in precisely that manner, it just occurred to you, so to speak?” Cummings restrained himself from interrupting the questioning to speed it up “I don’t [...]

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