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thank you

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I was born in Savannah Georgia where I

was raised to be a fine Southern lady

like my mother but I didn't really come

of age until I went to a place unknown

and far away

my long journey began with a small step

on a day in May 1964.

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It came it came

sweet bread oh Sweet Briar rack quick as

you know perfectly well

purple would be so proud of me wouldn't

he maybe you best open it boxer

although you have all the qualifications

to make an excellent candidate for

Radcliffe

regret

regret

I bet sweet Brian don't regret nothing I

bet they'd be glad to have you I'm not

going there no matter what mother says I

want to go to Radcliffe like Papa wanted

I want more than don't tease for the

daughters of the Civil War I went out of

here Queenie

how about this

University of California at Berkeley

sure as ducks flying North that's out of

here isn't it

that'll be awesome yes ma'am

may I be excused

well certainly not

your brother comes to dental

we haven't nearly finished visiting

tell us all about you and Allison she's

such a dear girl worked so hard over the

league

and her contact's a Sweetbriar

will be endlessly helpful to you Paxton

I'm not going to Sweetbriar

of course you are

and they're going to be thrilled to have

you I'm going to Berkeley

my acceptance arrived today

Paxton all the women in our family have

gone to Sweetbriar

and Berkeley

they're in the papers all the time

always protesting something they would

just fill your head with ideas

I certainly hope so mother

Papa set up this trust fund so that I

could go to any University I choose

Papa would have approved of Berkeley

Paxton you have an annotion where father

stood on anything you were so little

when he died I'm sorry to disappoint you

mother I always seem to do that

but this is what I want

please wish me luck

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Paxton

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I do know really I do

how much you wanted to get into

Radcliffe

but mama please

Robert Frost

the first poetry pop I've ever shared

with me

I'd like to have it

of course

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well George has your bags in the car

since you're so determined to make this

California mistake best you don't miss

your plane

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thank you

goodbye Papa

wish me luck

I'll be right there

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promise me

well

I guess you can have a little fun for

yourself too

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much

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don't let him sweet talk you he's

dangerous

gotcha actually it's really nice for you

to offer because my brother is being a

little pain in the ass Peter I didn't

know I was on the third floor so quit

blaming me

I'm Gabrielle Wilson yeah we call her

Gabby and this is Peter it's my brother

he's in law school why don't we just

leave her with this mess that's all her

doing anyway

and you and I go have a beer your sheets

are in here brother you want to sleep

the rest of your on a bear mattress just

try dumping me for a beer are you from

the south right yeah I love your accent

so what room are you in 310 oh

yeah you're better than ours I got a

place off campus with a couple other

guys

got all the stuff from the Salvation

Army

so uh where are my sheets in your

suitcase where Mom put them why

I'll um call you later that's okay with

you

call you later

way to go

oh never mind I'll deal with this later

so hey you gotta help me you've scored

now

what Peter ow you took one look at you

and pout

anyway tomorrow's registration what are

you gonna wear I mean we have to look

spectacular right

sorry yeah but I'm gonna wear the

registration is the last thing on my

mind

oh my poor brother's falling for someone

serious

don't you even know what your major is

don't you

well yes

it's journalism I'm hoping to get a job

on the school paper

what are you doing here I just wanted to

see you

I got a job that's great congratulations

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guess who

see you Saturday night can't wait love

Peter

is this how your brother treats all his

girls all his girls no he doesn't he

happens to be in love silly with you I

have a deadline it's my first interview

Gabby so don't bother me to go

closet or something

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thank you

by the end of 1964 there will be twice

as many advisors in Vietnam

es these are troops our government has

no right to do this no right at all no

way at all

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let's go

Peter Jones I want to hear what these

students have to say this is a story and

the paper wants me to cover it

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well yeah

hi hi

another battle in Vietnam it's real

bloody we we just don't belong over

there I agree the students yesterday

made a lot of sense

so

look at this

that's mine my story Peter

I knew you'd make front page the way you

interviewed those guys in jail yesterday

you just got a job in San Francisco this

summer it'll be easy for you to get a

job at the sun believe me easy

San Francisco Sun hey my father happens

to have some influence okay

I'm talking about it over Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving

excuse Gabby was supposed to ask you

no no she didn't she probably thought

she did she takes time to say hello to

me anymore well forget my sister

from my mom it's a fish

my mother will have a fit

I still think she's gonna talk me into

trans women so all we're going to do is

fight the whole weekend anyways

so does that mean you'll come

I'll just have to call and talk to her

that's all

I would love to come for Thanksgiving

well how could you humiliate your family

in this manner

what are you talking about the

demonstration Paxton the Nightly News

this phone has been ringing off the hook

ever since

I'm sorry mother

we're certainly going to talk about

transferring you when you come home I'm

perfectly happy here

and um

oh I'm not gonna come home for

Thanksgiving

such a a long trip back to Savannah just

for one weekend well it sounds like

you've already decided with no

consideration whatever for me Christmas

is only a month after

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I'm sorry mother I honestly didn't think

that you would mind

well goodbye Paxton

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this is where you all live huh it's nice

nice

this is lovely

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I thought you'd never get here we've got

so much to do oh

and you're Paxton oh you're all my

children ever talk about in their two

rare phone calls welcome my dear I hope

they warned you the Wilson Clan does all

their own cooking on Thanksgiving

honey show packs in her room and then

come straight down dinner's underway

Peter Dad's getting wood for the fire

and I want you to help him

one's your responsibility son

uh I was thinking down in the cellar

now that's a good Chardonnay I hope that

satisfies everyone anyway Peter this

attack at bienwa

very interesting it's terrible of course

but uh it's bound to change things

Johnson wants it to or not you mean more

involvement well that should please you

and your man Goldwater oh now come on

Peter it's not going to please me it's

not going to please Goldwater either for

that matter and I know it's not going to

please my editorial staff good Democrats

all nobody likes this Warsaw

but at least they're going to have to

admit now that a line has to be drawn

somewhere against communism line drawing

is that what you call it Eddie Marlow

guy I went to high school with came back

last June minus a leg Lester Hurst

got his plane shot down now he's missing

so

do you want me to go pop

I mean I'm a student now I'm safe

but if them why not me

there's the last pie that's it everybody

okay here we go

oh yes

Peter tells me you're interested in

journalism Paxton yes sir why

oh well I

have Peter and Gabby say so anyway

but why journalism

it's the only way people get to the

truth

learn all the facts isn't it

I'd like to be part of that

Peter says you're connected with the son

Mr Wilson

what is it you do there

Paxton don't fall off the chair dear but

Ed owns the Sun

I know I should have told you

but in the beginning when I found out

what your major was

I didn't want it to matter then later

I didn't think it would

so does it

no

well fortunately it's what the paper

prints that's important not who owns it

thank God

well

ladies and gentlemen

here's to a fine dinner fine day

and I'm sorry to say this but

I have the sad feeling that 1964 may be

the last fine year we see for quite a

long time to come

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so how do you like my tree it's

beautiful

and my dinner

very nice delicious

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how about a movie

hey gold fingers on at 905. I think

that's what it says

not for me I have a light playing catch

I've already seen it

hold on come on gab let's go hey hey

roomie you have kitchen duty tonight

remember come on let's go

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so what do you think of them

James Bond well I think no mad mad what

do you think oh Matt yeah Matt

man um

he's a good looking I guess oh you guess

he's gorgeous oh and he's really nice

too don't you think

packs I swear I'm just crazy about him

again this movie is at 805 not 905. oh

hey Matt Matt's movie time

Merry Christmas thank you have a good

flight hey hey hey hey hey hey I'll make

it up to you

I swear he skips out on the dishes three

out of four nights

you better know Gabby's lost it over him

no he's not such a bad

and after all who wouldn't want to skip

out on kitchen duty good thing about it

is We're Alone to blast

dishes anyone

you're such a romantic

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I love you

marry me

oh baby

I wish I would like Gabby

all she was in the whole world is to be

somebody's wife

to be somebody's mother

I wish I thought I could be happy with

only that

somewhere with me believe me there's

nothing to matter with you

probably

and I doubt it

listen I know you want other things it's

fine

I'm proud of you

but that doesn't mean

that we can

oh what the hell Patsy

let's just make it right now

why not

because

that's a commitment too

and I'm not sure

no

no I know I'm not ready for that

we've gotta go

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ax

marrying me doesn't mean you won't see

the world

where the moon or whatever the hell you

decide to see

I'll be here for you

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I love you packs

I have three and a half more years of

school

every dream I ever had depends on my

graduating

you'll be done in five months

ready for a career

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the responsibility of marriage and

children just terrifies me

okay

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try and leave it alone

it sure would make things better if I

knew that you loved me back

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yes

I love you

from the very first time I ever saw you

I love

you

don't make that be enough

for now anyway

I'll call you

we'll make it through Christmas

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we're gonna have to live for the airport

pretty soon

my mine is Marco now

because if we stay here we'll just end

up doing the dishes anywhere

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mother

oh

my baby is oh

just look at you

your mama's doing the Christmas lunch at

the club she'll be back by four she said

looks like someone did a lot of work

around here she sure did decorated up

the whole house

living room dining room

good notice you're here

it's really something isn't it

I thought we'd decorate the tree

together tonight

well

at my Christmas Eve ham in the oven

cleaning way

Merry Christmas cleaning go on open it

up

it's an antique made out of Abalone it's

a Pacific shellfish

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thank you Charles

if mother isn't going to be home for a

while

will you sit and talk with me the way

you used to

but not for long now girl

come on

sit down

I tried to do like you said

you know about not taking anything to

Heart right away

there's a boy who loves me

a man really a good man

and he's willing to wait but

I know how things can turn between

people

turn bad I mean

they can can't they

suppose I'll wait and does that to us

suppose

suppose maybe I should grab for it right

now

and you're looking for me to say do it

or don't do it

oh sweet child

was there ever any joy in this house Joy

a life Paxton

and your chances at it can go by so

quick

but

if you do like you say grab for it

you best know that more than likely some

heard you'll be following behind

yo mama Finance me with you talking such

business I'll be out of here before

lightning strikes

she loves you child

try not to doubt it

huh

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well I'm sure Paxton will be down soon

she's talking to that California boy she

spent Thanksgiving with

George tells me he has a very special

announcement today

you look grown up Paxton

even old enough for Sherry

well George

has something to tell us Paxton

Allison has um

accepted my proposal

we had to be married in June

it's beautiful George

I just think Paxton you'll have a sister

an eye a new daughter

oh by the way um Allison has done you a

great kindness uh the brother of a

friend of hers over at The League Thrift

Shop

would just be delighted to escort you to

the New Year's Eve assembly dates he's

from VMR Paxton mother he'll be in

uniform

I'm so sorry Allison but I don't have a

dress to wear or anything well you would

have a closet full of formals if you'd

gone to Sweetbriar

but never mind we'll uh we'll go

shopping day after tomorrow and pick you

up something suitable no

I mean

no mother um

I just decided on the phone now that I'm

going back to Berkeley for New Year's

give me serve ma'am

well come along dear after all dinner

tonight is in Europe

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thank you

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hello

hi Mom yeah she just got in no we came

by the house to pick the skis up and

what

pasta Tahoe got snowed in they can't get

out we can't get in

yes Mom I hear you I hear you

no mother all right all right tell her

okay bye

mom says the roads will be open tomorrow

we can go up again

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if I can help

where's Gabby with Matt worlds a lot of

reviews throwing a big New Year's Eve

bash so she'll stay on campus

dorms are open I can take you there or

anywhere else you want to go

but uh in the meantime let me get

something to eat we can talk I missed

you so much I miss you too

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because I love you so much

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thank you

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the first time the floor got a little

distracting

what was that the second time

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I have a suspicion Peter

The Joy comes easier to some than others

it looks like lemon like it was

dear PETA

this summer job at the journal isn't bad

but it's so boring Society news rewrites

and I forgot how humid Savannah can be

anyway I know I wouldn't survive much

longer if you weren't coming

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don't you look good and I've missed you

so much look at you I thought you'd be

tan I've been working

you want to drive sure

I got us a house it's on the north side

of Campus it's tiny but it's big enough

for the three of them

he did not be out of that noisy dorm oh

my God is that all you can think of

Peter don't say anything to Mother at

home about us living together okay

what time does your mother expect this

in about an hour

too bad my plane was late right

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Peter it's time to go

that is what you said before

Oh God dinner's gonna be ruined mother

will kill me

please Peter get dressed

nicely thank you

plane landed on time

well I think we can wait a while before

Colin Hospital

where have you been

oh I took Peter on a little tour of

Savannah and we lost track of the time

this is Peter this is my mother

my brother George

his wife Allison

you want me to put dinner on now yes

Queenie would you please everybody come

on

Peter this is creamy I've heard a lot

about you I do

oh wow

good up your courage sweetie

thank you

does it always smell this good here

so fragrant

our summer flowers

my mother grows roses what do you think

about Vietnam

it's going badly

and I'm afraid to say I don't think we

belong there George

as a student to a draft deferred of

course but

what will you do when you get your

degree

it's not for another couple of years

by that time the war could be over and

I'll probably be too old for the draft

anyway

oh you could marry

I understand some are doing that

to avoid the draft

time for dessert

we'll have dessert now cleaning yes

ma'am

a Pity won't be here in Fall Peter

for the hunt

do you ride

well I've never what do you say written

to the hounds but yes I can horseback

ride

western saddle

Allison I've always wanted to ask a

member of the Hunt Club

what do you do with the fox once you

catch him

damn it Paxton

dogs take the fox of course

well

if we had all had a sufficiency I think

we've kept Queenie long enough

shout where Joe won the others ma'am

I'm so sorry Peter it's okay

I wish you could have met Papa

then you see where I really come from

well thank you for agreeing to meet with

me Paxton I know how busy you working

girls can be I just dropped Peter at the

airport so I was happy to squeeze you

enjoy it

how did he like Savannah

us

Peter

oh hot and suffocating in that order

though he's too polite to have said it

so bluntly

the way you all behaved at dinner that

evening was Unforgivable

Papa would have never allowed a guest to

have been treated so rudely

you continue to disappoint us Paxton

not especially of course

we want you to have a suitable life here

like all

would you insist on going your own way

and everything

my mother has struggled to keep up her

membership in the country club for you

do you ever use it

she's dying entertained for you when you

love her

no first you take a silly little job

totally unnecessary and now this this

Peter Wilson in his newspaper father

the West Coast journalists if you want

to call them that I'm interested in film

styles

you and mother will never understand me

Papa did I told you before you know

nothing about that man he did

just before he died I told him I wanted

to be a writer a newspaper writer you

know what he said go do it paxi

he said

women for a thousand years have been

made to live in prisoned lives and made

to like it

but since the war all that's changed

and a woman can be anything she wants to

be

well he was obviously trying to make

excuses for himself excuses and what was

that about Allison and mother

they lead what did he say imprisoned

lives

and like it

talking to you about women and you only

a child my God

it's time you found out Paxton

father was with another woman when the

plane crashed

what

he was having an affair

no

no he did not deserve to die for finding

someone to love him

mother always so cold how do you know

the grief she felt

I don't

I don't know anything she has ever

really felt

are you either for that matter

please leave that for a minute and come

into the living room

is he gone yes Mother

speak with you

and are with you

Paxton you have disgraced yourself and

completely embarrassed the rest of us it

was written all over both of you the

minute you came through that door

what'd you do stop off at one of those

cheap motels near the airport

now you can't possibly believe anything

that boy tells you that boy's name is

Peter

and he wants to marry me of course he

does

did you hear nothing your brother said

he practically spelled the whole thing

out the other night the boy needs a

draft deferment didn't you hear anything

Peter said he's not concerned with that

I came home

and waited for you mother because I want

to talk to you about Papa over here I do

not wish to speak about your father at

this moment

how did I ever manage to raise such a

daughter

Paxton you continue in this begotten

relationship and you'll be no better

than a [ __ ]

go back to California but I think you

better not plan on returning home for

vacations anymore

I have already decided that mother

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thank you

facts

what are you doing in the kitchen

I think that's the way it's supposed to

look uh it uh seems to have fallen

so I

thought I have to cook all these things

separately

and then I'm gonna mix them together I'm

gonna have a wonderful sauce

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save it for Gabby she'll uh she'll

figure something out

where is she anyway out with my where

else

I wanted to cook for you just

all by myself

when

cooking becomes you you look beautiful

so try it again next week

in the meantime

picking Palace

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does Matt know

it's barely found out myself

do you want this baby

yeah I want this baby

of course I want it I mean I wanted this

baby all my life

it's just the thing is you know

what if he doesn't I mean what am I

gonna do you have to tell him

is what Peter told me true

when were you going to get around

telling me Gabrielle

I'm sorry man I mean I know you feel

caught and you have a lot of plans for

yourself shut up shut up just shut up

one of those plans

was to marry you

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nobody makes me as happy as you do

okay all right okay

will you marry me Gabby

and you damn well better because we're

gonna have a wonderful baby

those who God hath joined together let

no man put asunder

for as much as Gabrielle and Matthew

hath consented together in holy wedlock

and have witnessed the same before God

in this company I pronounce that they

are man and wife in the name of the

Father the Son and the Holy Ghost

you may kiss the bride

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hello Paxton this is Charlene

it's very sick she's asking for you

oh no

where is she Savannah

today

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thank you

mama called you

it was your niece Charlene she told me

you'd kill her if I told him her you

won't do that will you

I just thank her all my days

must be chill anymore

yeah lady

she'll love full blown

and harshness your Mama's Got

all her own doing a child

so

you gotta promise me

one more promise

go see your mama

before you leave Savannah

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your daddy

so proud of you

said to me once

that little girl

could be something

I don't do something

important and all the wide world

that's how he talked

thank you Queenie

forgive him back to me

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mother

goodness you've become an adult haven't

you

well I guess it has been a year and a

half since

shall we have some tea

oh you went to see Queenie

why didn't you call me mother I did this

morning

they said you'd already left for

Savannah

of course I couldn't be sure whether

you'd come home

or not

oh why does it always take water so long

before

Queenie hasn't been coming now for some

time

no point in hiring to cook just for me

much too wasteful

how George and Allison

oh just real well

are you still seeing that young man his

name is Peter

as you know very well

and we've been living together for over

two years now as you surely must have

guessed

his sister Gabrielle was with us for a

while I wrote you about her

long ago

but you never showed much interest

the use

okay

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your old room's ready

quitting I've already set our goodbyes

Peter got his law degree yesterday so I

wanted to go back and celebrate with him

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will you marry this

oh

oh I just don't understand you

you're more than I ever understood your

father

if you if you've lived with a man for

such a long time

is this talk about a new draft law

it's in all the papers

aren't you frightened for him

Peter will be Beyond draft age in

January

still if you love him I don't think I

want to be married right now

do you think love is so easy to come

back

I don't

Peter deserves a wife and a mama for his

children

and I feel guilty that I can't give him

that right now

but there are other things that I want

to do

what

why do you always reject everything

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Peter Wilson but

us here

the life

we wanted to give you

what did you'd have

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me

when I called this morning I thought no

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she'll come home for that old colored

moment

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but I am so terrible that you

just want no part of me at all

I

I might have thought something like

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that oh God

well no longer you know you make excuses

for years and and it doesn't really

explain anything

it's just

you end up

just blocking it all up

because it's so much easier

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didn't I already wrapped this

not unwrapping these as I wrap the

morning no sure I can't think of

anything I would rather do on Christmas

Eve than re-wrap last minute Christmas

presents that you bought for your

sister's children

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they are cute

real cute

Peter what's the matter

nothing

hey hey knock down

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will you marry me

because of the draft

no

because I love you

and I want to spend the rest of my life

as soon as we get back from Christmas I

want to find it

don't you believe me

I believe you love me

that you married me tomorrow

it wouldn't be enough

you gave up your dreams to marry me

before long we'd be in Ruins

you're not that kind of woman

that's why I love you

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those Marines still able to fight stayed

on the perimeter and waited for the

enemy while the most seriously wounded

sprawled among the dead waiting for

deliverance

wounded men helped wounded men Escape

it was a 50-foot hoist up to the cabin

of the helicopter

the brave men waited to help brave men

the downdraft from the rotor blades made

the ascent hazardous spinning the

wounded almost out of control

but this was India company's last chance

to save lives cut off cut to Pieces

India Company achieved that terrible

beauty that is achieved only by brave

men in the hour of defeat when there is

nothing left except the hope that a

friend May survive

reporting from a Hilltop somewhere north

of Saigon this is Dave Gallup who's

reporting for

sorry did I did I wake you

you're not being in bed woke me

come on Peter what's the matter

I wanna I wanted to wait till after

Christmas to tell you

I want the folks to know either

what

Selective Service

it's only three more weeks until your

birthday

they want me in 10 days

all right

we'll get married anyway we can go to

Canada you can take the Canadian bar

I've got too many friends fighting over

there

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they run away from them

that's what I'd be doing

government has let me off the hook until

now

I can't run away from that

I just can't

oh God

oh God I did this to you

see you

never say that

you asked me

and I said no

it's my decision

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you understand

it's my decision

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dear Peter got your letter this morning

full of Vietnam and the people there

funny you're the onesie in the world

I wish I could share it with you

maybe when the war's over

I'm glad you missed me

I never guessed how hard it would be

without you my darling Peter

I attend my classes but it all seems

like nonsense

it's just I didn't know what loneliness

was until these last two months

and I only live for your letters

I think of my father sometimes

how lonely he must have felt all those

years ago

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Mr Wilson

thank you

what is it

they came by the house to tell us

it's Peter he

has been killed in Paxton

dunang they said

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it's chances

I couldn't pull some strings he wouldn't

let me felt he had to go

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thank you

we'll be at the car I see

no

I'm not okay Peter

I don't know if I ever will be

your packs

I got reassigned

way outside of Saigon

Countryside is great

it's full of beautiful people

flowers all over the place

and wear them in their hair

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I want to see you with Flowers in Your

Hair packs

more damage is terrible

caused by Guess Who US based in part

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dreams of you my sweet girl

remembering the feel of you

make this possible for me

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sometimes I can't believe we found so

much Wonder together

right from the beginning

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hello Paxton

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oh honey I hope I didn't wake you

I've just been thinking about you the

whole day long

I want you to know I'm here in case

how did it go how are you

I'm all right I guess

all those coffins

lined up

so many mama

Paxton I've been thinking

you know today was to have been your

graduation

Coleman September when I make

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up why don't you come home

it's been the summer here nobody will

bother you

and and you can get your courses for

transfer here

no thank you I mean

but I think I'm

I think I might go away for a while

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problem with this country anyway

first they kill Martin Luther King then

Bobby now my beautiful Peter

Paxton please

won't you just please come home

I'll let you know where I am maybe not

right away but don't worry

we'll do it

Paxton I could hear it in your voice

you lock yourself away it won't help a

thing

calling Mama

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Paxton

cut your hair

or are you just getting too thin huh

come by for dinner more often

what can I do for you

I want a job Mr Wilson

of course you can have a job here

anytime you want it

but doesn't it make more sense for you

to stay at Berkeley this summer get your

degree

I'm not going to finish school I've

learned all the journalism Berkeley has

to offer my senior year has been nothing

but electives anyway

I want a job in Saigon Mr Wilson

that's out of the question

why

what is this Paxton

a gift to Peter

so that you can go die in the same place

he did

but Paxton I know your whole generation

thinks this country is going to hell and

I quite frankly am beginning to agree

with you

but a suicide mission is no answer I

know how it looks believe me but I'm not

looking to get killed it's just I have

to be in Vietnam understand what's

happening over there make people care

about it

we watch people die burn up get shot

every night while we eat our dinners and

we never even Flinch that is not

understanding that is plain wrong

one way or another I'm gonna find out

the truth for myself and send it back

if not for the sun then for some other

paper

packs didn't go anywhere you want in

this country find a story and I'll

publish it but not Vietnam

we owe it to Peter to take care of you

I owe him more than that

I'll wait

it takes time to prepare for an

assignment like this and that'll give

you time to think about what you really

want to do in it

give it six months

they don't take six months to prepare

the grunts do they

you're gonna have to swear that you'll

do exactly what we ask for and nothing

more

now listen to me

you're going to follow our orders to the

letter or you're out of there

I swear

and I'll do a good job I swear that too

worried about you doing a good job

Paxton I'm worried about you

oh my God marjorie's gonna kill me

how soon do I go

well you need shots briefings

two weeks with you

you won't be sorry

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foreign

how are you so sure she's in America I'm

gonna buy me a drink I'll teach you how

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much

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[Applause]

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that's all I have anymore

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whatever brought to him and was help you

to suffer Saigon come I've been sent on

a mission to bring you to breakfast

this is Ralph Johnson with dap

hi pleasure and I'm an Mazel I'm your

savior Jean Paul from the figuero At

Your Service forever

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yeah

I'm Paxton Andrews I'm here to cover the

war for the San Francisco Sun

Anderson

I've heard that name didn't you write

for the toddler times

so how old are you anyway

22.

thank you

too much vodka

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I got a good lady listen I'll walk you

over to the AP office okay you want to

check in right yeah it's uh it's a long

walk it's gonna be a hot day maybe we

ought to take a taxi no I can't wait to

walk around this city

U.S information service auditorium at

five o'clock oh yeah the five o'clock

they're giving you a slow started

they're putting you on travel

what are the five o'clock College daily

military briefing they feed us what they

want us to tell the folks back home that

we're winning and we all

what do you think

if another Talent comes in asking me to

cuddle that practice answers I'm gonna

take a nap the bloody machine

Andrews

is that true you just sat here to play

for a little while then you're gonna

tell the folks back home you saw naan no

and I won't be made to do that either

come on Wow show me the ropes I want to

get out of Saigon I want to see what's

really going on here Ralph

I'm a good Rider

you got boots

yeah real boots with a steel shank and

the sole to protect your feet from

bamboo spikes no

what size are you seven

I'll get some for you

I went up to coochie with a crew to do a

piece on the tunnels oh 500 at the hotel

would that be 5 a.m that's what I said

we got a bunch of journalists here

Soldier how about the Delta Delta

Suzuka San Francisco Sun

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didn't you see him when you arrived at

Town Center

Red Cross ladies Uso ladies serving

coffee they call them donut dollies out

here you better get used to it you're

gonna call you that in a lot worse

foreign

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what the hell is this what are they

draft in high school girls now I'm a

journalist really well you're too far

forward

BC is surfaced up ahead there's no need

to exclude the Press Sarge since one is

the Press been a woman

but here's the captain up here Captain

Quinn Captain this is Paxton Andrews

she's with me I'm with the San Francisco

just a trifle hot out here today

Chopper spots in VC maybe five or six

yeah just tell them to fall back Captain

let you clean those cuddles out we

thought so too but they just keep

popping up

we finally new tunnel last week the damn

thing's got to stretch clear to Kansas

could

I fire TMC what's what I'm on a monitor

Captain

first Squad let's go

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thank you

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six zero one zero

I'll take this Captain dead looks like a

sniper

Captain me and the camera and a black

guy

thank you

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stay here

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where are you Willie where I am come in

I'm here Captain the prince you got

taken out sir Delta doctor's okay

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snipers are cleaning us down okay what

can't get out of there

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what's happening what's going on

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somebody are you there

to somebody right there

is

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the guy with the radius

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you see the chopper Andrews

Andrews can you hear me

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foreign

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Vietnam

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far from Savannah where I was born the

land is green with growing things but

when it explodes Beneath Your Feet it is

red dust that fills your eyes

you rub them clear to see the Marine it

was just joking with you

lying unconscious might be dead

you look up to call for help and they're

all around you

is that patient land waiting for the

horrors to go away

foreign

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the hotel seems to be in pretty good

Spurs today yes sir your visit's really

tearing up

oh hey

that woman over there isn't that Becks

and Andrews yeah she writes newspaper

column message from now

she comes here to get stories but the

truth is she gives a lot more than she

gets good lady

you're looking good

Miss Andrews

hi

you uh you probably don't remember me

but I sure as hell remember you

coochie

Captain Quinn right

that was not a pleasant day

I would have thought you would have

headed back first thing

how long has it been

two months

three weeks four days and

six and a half hours

you still at Gucci

yep

and I would still like to see those

tunnels of yours if it's okay with you

yep

listen uh you're not doing anything

special how about a cup of coffee

better still I've been hankering for a

burger and a shake all week they make a

pretty good one here at the base

sounds great

my mother was dying for me to go to

sleep right and my brother George just

wanted me to marry some nice Southern

boy

so I knew I had to get out of there so I

went to Berkeley

it was wonderful

it's where I met Peter I told you about

him and we were together

a long time

when he got killed I came over here to

find out why you kicked loose a lot

sooner than I did I went the whole route

yeah

West Point marriage

kids

the name kind of Set Me Free it's my

second tour

last time I went home my wife

could have been living on the moon

we don't even speak the same language

anymore

so I re-upped

could be where two of a kind you know

that Paxton

both like to live on the edge

you like poetry

a couple of lines been following me

around for years

two roads diverged in a wood

and I

I took the One Less Traveled by

that has made all the difference

Robert Frost you like Robert Frost

The Road Not Taken

could be with two of a kind

I'd like to see more of you Paxton

latest count is 21 wounded three killed

all men and bodies recovered come on

Andrews and I and I regret to inform you

that they were considerably more

casualties than that sir

hard to tell from behind the line isn't

it

but from all quarters latest count is 21

wounded three killed that's it for today

gentlemen and ladies

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and my lady and I are going to be having

dinner tonight at the time now if you

want to join us I would love to but we

have plans Belle and I are there again

come on Ralph

I know he's married you know he's

married we all see he is a tunnel rat

you dangerous damn it

and what about you are you really over

the loss of your young man

the life takes off

and we have fun

that's exactly what France does for me

so

why don't we make it a foursome around

sevenish yeah

I never know when he'll be in

but I'll leave him where to try and made

us there at 7.

so friends I understand you have a son

what's his name on

show her the picture

I couldn't be prouder of this little guy

if you were my own

the every bit as beautiful as his mom

right

he's adorable oh the door's rough

it's Andrews

got the message you sent the captain and

since I was coming here anyway is there

something wrong

the captain of me were coming in from

coochie together

but he got held up

just wanted me to tell you

foreign

it's not just you you know he hates the

Press he thinks I'm a non-essential

Personnel getting in everybody's way

especially female reporters

do you worry like this every time that

was late

you think she cares for Bill too much

fall in love out here with a nightmare

running

just asking for grief

if something happens to that somebody

and you're not married

you don't even have a right to that

grief

I go to the greatest room too

I'm sorry you're annoyed with Ralph

Ralph has no right to any opinion at all

about Bill and me when he won't

you two are obviously in love and

available and you aren't married yet are

you he has no right to criticize me

look look

feels the same

but it is not the same Pakistan

doc

it is okay here in Vietnam

but no good in the U.S

no good

Vietnamese ladies they go there they

come back

very bad for them in the U.S very bad

it'll be bad for me

for off

and for on my little sweet boy baby

we live here

it's really happy

we live there

very unhappy

it isn't that way for everybody

it doesn't have to be

have to be perhaps not

just to use I know

and you see

he will go home

someday

he believes not but he will

so

it's no good for us to get married

but now is good

and it is everything must be

okay

all right let's eat huh

yeah you ordered in a row we're going

dancing

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foreign

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show doesn't like me much and it isn't

just because I'm a lady reporter either

good

as far as he's concerned we're here to

fight a war

emotions just get in the way of

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winning

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I'm not going to get involved

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foreign

but

I sure as hell I have

as I come in love with you

boy damn it

I think I am

I can't it's just

I'm sorry

I'm sorry so sore

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still I can't make any promises God

knows

I don't even know what I'm gonna tell

Debbie

my kids

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things that long predate you

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foreign

no pressures

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I'll call you

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then I know caused the War fast he's

right

I had some growing up to do when I

arrived in Vietnam

and I'm doing it fast

there's no time to stand on the

sidelines in this war

there's only time to get into it

let it happen and move on to what's next

the feelings rise up in you later

and that's when you come of age

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ready to go back to Saigon

where's Andrews

down there

you sent her into the tunnels I didn't

send Ralph she bugged me for weeks to

let her go down there

what the hell were you thinking of she's

been in battle she's seen men die

she wants to learn the tunnels why not

let her

he said 10 minutes where the hell is she

damn it the no live Charlie's left down

there Ralph what about the Dead one

Sergeant I can smell him from here

hey there

does that make you feel good you prove a

point now you want some hearts and Minds

here

you have a responsible bone in your body

come on knock it off wow

I was only down there for 10 minutes no

tunnel VC yes it was horrible but these

guys are down there every day hour after

hour booby traps everywhere and if

Charlie's stands to death hey that's

good news

how far does that tunnel run

come on

captain

can I be relief for the afternoon

sure

yeah

I want to talk to you

coffee now here do fine

I'm sorry for whatever it is you think

about me

I'm really not a bad person what I think

has nothing to do with it it's all the

captain feels that scares me it scares

me to death

now he saved my life he saved more men

and you can even begin to count and now

you're out there risking his ass and you

don't even realize it

um what it takes a special mindset to

stay alive out there ladies

and the captain he's crawling around on

his belly every day and he's not

thinking about his men he's not thinking

about himself he's not thinking about

Charlie on down the tunnel hell no he's

thinking about you

and that itch he got scratched last

night and gonna get scratched again

tomorrow and every day after that

no way of knowing what the hell is a

woman doing here anyway your opinion of

what a woman has to offer is

pathetically limited sergeant

but suddenly learn more from your

captain than how to stay alive in a

tunnel

whatever is going on out there you put

him in danger

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you look sad is there anything the

matter

I've just been

thinking wondering

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what it is you do maybe distractions

aren't very smart

meaning that my being distracted by you

isn't very smart

Paxton

you are the smartest thing that has ever

happened to me

now that I've seen what you do

a bottle of Chardonnay please California

anything

thank you

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with all my love

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keep it

where

never doubt it's the truth

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I'm going to Hong Kong next week to meet

with Debbie and I

I really don't know what I'm gonna tell

her

for all the kids and Debbie's not at all

like you Paxton she's bridge and PTA in

the officers Wives Club and

she'll be so bewildered

and her

you know something

I go for a walk with you I eat a

hamburger with you

I talk with you

and I never want to say goodbye

come on Dance With Me

I have time enough to worry about the

rest

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oh

have a seat

I have something for you too

this was my father's it was the first

poetry ever shared with me

Robert Frost

my God

I know that first time when we were

together and you quoted Frost I couldn't

believe it

tell me about your father

she had a lot of things with me poetry

baseball

and then when I was 10

he died

that's when my mother found out that

there was another woman

my mother was always cold but that

seemed to close her off even more

but regardless of what I know about him

now that'll never change my feelings for

him

I can't accept this it's too late

I've already inscribed it

I was just waiting for the right moment

for Bill

these poems remind me of you strong

honest

and beautiful

Ralph said something to me today

about how the war affects people how it

exaggerates everything and that feelings

that you have can't really be trusted

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you can trust this

I love you

you're not gonna say it are you

I wish that I could

because I think maybe I do

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but I just can't say that yet

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oh

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foreign

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Paxton

were we supposed to go somewhere this am

no we weren't it's just that bill was

supposed to be back from Hong Kong day

before last and he has him called uh-huh

think that you need to go out there I

know I know and a sergeant will say even

worse than I'm a nosy girlfriend or bill

will be there and be fine and I'll feel

like a nosy girlfriend but

I have to know he's okay

so would you go out to coochie with me

just for moral support oh packs

okay if that's what you really want to

do

I'll pick you up in 20 minutes okay

thank you

what do you want here

take it easy Tony

did it

I warned you but he wouldn't leave me

alone

he um comes back from Hong Kong goes

down the tunnel

cold yeah he's all messed up in the head

he's not thinking straight he's thinking

about you and now he's dead and you

killed him you killed it sergeant

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you want to see the body is that it well

he's gone he's all gone

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where are you going

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have bills things been sent home yet

you didn't take enough you want to

Keepsake too

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foreign

there's a book I gave him I inscribed it

and some pictures of me

whatever his wife knows she doesn't need

her nose rubbed in it

no matter what he told her seeing those

things

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it's not for me

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Sanders

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you saved my life

over and over again

I should have been there for

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excuse me

he's the best

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Paxton

come on Paxton I know you're in there

open the damn door

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tax

you missed five deadlines

oh yeah

that's gave me some messages for you

uh someone from me most of them are from

uh Ed Wilson at the Sun

um

it's time to go home Paxton

my mother died a month ago

I didn't go home for a funeral

she wants to ask me

if I would go home for her if she was

sick

died

I've been trying to write down story

I can't

the thing is I never

said I loved him

I don't even know if I did

he's left undone

another worst

but you put it aside past any time

now go back to the States

Bill said nothing's real there anymore

maybe not

but if this is all the real left in the

world

then we're all in trouble

you're six months and long since up your

paper wants you home

and Bill's gone

get some air passing

afterwards he can still love Vietnam so

damn much

that Ed Wilson send you back or find

somebody else who will

the AP has got a seat for you on the

freedom flight today

and I'm seeing that you take it

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we haven't touched a thing since mother

died

waiting for you Paxton

you were her only daughter and

Alison is punctilious about proprieties

of course

I really don't want anything

as for helping Alison sort through it

all I feel guilty not helping her but

surely it'll be easier for Alice and

it's only herself in charge don't you

think

well that's very wise baxton

Allison will know exactly what to do

I made friends with Mama

before I went to know

if it's okay there are a couple pictures

in the study I would like to have

I don't have one of you though or Papa

whatever

thank you

what do you expect to do with your life

now Paxton

if you'd like to return to Savannah I'm

sure I could help you find something

probably on the moon for a while San

Francisco son wants me to continue with

the column message from America or

something like that

even sold it to a couple syndicates so I

guess I'll get a little van travel

around look for some

really

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Miss Andrews sir Paxton

oh don't you look fine hello

how are you how's the family wonderful

of course you have to see my

grandchildren you're going to visit with

us right yes of course I'm looking

forward to it no

yep just been reading your column

been tracking it for months you know

you've been everywhere haven't you

what do you think

the pieces are all the same caliber

Paxton they're professional nice local

color

I can't tell you what a great relief it

is to see you looking so well there are

people coming back from Vietnam with

bugs that continue to make them sick for

the rest of their lives Maybe

and the way you looked eight months ago

well I don't see any reason why you

can't continue to write the column

forever if that's what you want

truth

none of them

none of them have the passion of message

from Nam

the worst things than bugs Ed

their dreams you wake up from and such

sadness

yes I know

I read about the soldiers returning

having nightmares there's therapy Paxton

and not that kind of dream

mine are of

rice paddies

unlike any other in the world

oliana mixed with the

smell of charcoal fires

dark gleaming hair coiled on the heads

of

beautiful women

I wake up with

such a sense of loss

I think I can never stand to feel it

again

but I do

the next knife

or the next

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if there's a

another reality in this world

when do you want to leave

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foreign

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I want to be out of the city get to know

the real Vietnam The Sounds the smells

the whole sense of it because my columns

are going to include pieces on the

country this tour not just the war so

I was wondering if you could help me

find a house wrong

Pax we have extra rooms we make for your

Suite

and I know American women like private

bathrooms so we do that too we're just

gonna add on to the upstairs Plumbing

it's a traditional Vietnamese house on

the edge of town rents cheap you know

Ralph goes off for his stories and

sometimes he doesn't come home at nights

or for days

are you afraid to be by yourself now

well things gotten so much worse since

I've been gone oh no

well some but we don't want you to be a

watchdog packs not watch dog

[ __ ] Ralph and I were having a baby

so if Ralph is not around when the baby

wants to come

it's wonderful

wow why didn't you tell me this too know

what's wrong with you what do you do

December

well I don't know you guys I'm I'm

surely no Midwife God forbid but you

could make a phone call for an ambulance

or drive her to the hospital if you had

to yeah come on Taxi what do you say

it's your kind of place private suite

and we promise we won't let on wake you

up when you want to sleep in

good

that's it for this round fellas and

ladies

hello

well it looks like some things never

change the truth

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hello Johnson

thanks Andrews

can I speak to you please that looks

such there's been a lot of water under

the bridge no harm men

swear

we think I'm really gonna believe that

it's okay Ralph

they'll love the guy

you have a car

all right you can drop me on your way

we'll talk

Tim everort the time cameraman he said

that you were back and um I checked over

at the Continental but you had already

checked out so I tried the AP five

o'clock Follies what never mind

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so how was it stateside

nobody understands over there

we go

fourth quarter

think I'm crazy

hey Bill the captain he used to say we

had to be crazy to be tunnel Ranch I

guess he was right

oh very brave

or both

is this your car

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but what you did

going back to the base you know and

getting bills stuff

that was an honorable thing to do and it

deserved respect

which I didn't give and

deserve to be honored back which I

didn't do either

I don't know I've never known a woman to

be like that before bill was a lucky guy

Miss Andrews

Bill wasn't careless in his life about

anything and being upset in turmoil is

what you said well crazy in love with

you

which he was none of it could make him

careless he made a mistake and that's it

you should not have gone down in the

tunnel without a Recon first but he did

probably because he wouldn't ask his men

to do it

as Andrews he wasn't thinking about you

he wasn't thinking about his wife he was

thinking about his men

and I was a son of a [ __ ] to take it

out on you

messing it around in my head ever since

starting right after but I couldn't get

back into Saigon for a couple three

weeks and you were already gone remember

you were right

maybe when your head's too full of

someone

well I sure hope not miss Andrews

because like I said you've been messing

around in my head for the past eight

months

you know what Delta Delta

I bet the finished idea where you live

out and yeah then I think it's on your

way isn't it

on the captains like him

not out of the point there aren't

more often than not he

took the weight off someone else's

shoulders and put him on his own

even the lowest grunt

but I guess you must have figured that

out

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he cared about you all very much

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up the road

they come by most afternoons

I love the sound

it's a very gentle country

sometimes

yeah

most soldiers

most people don't recognize that

and at home they seem to care less and

less about this place

oh that's a terrible War

a lot of years

it's hard to keep caring especially if

you're not here

do you have family sergeant

Joey

he's nine

I don't get to see him too frequently

because his mother and I

I got drafted

my older brother did not

so he ended up with my wife and now Joey

calls him dad

which doesn't exactly make for a happy

family life when I turn up

hmm

you want more coffee

oh who's getting onto dinner

I don't suppose

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do you like Chinese I

love that figures

I was once known as the worst cook in

California but my friend Franz has

taught me how to do a great Chinese film

if you want to risk it

of course we'd have to go shopping

let's go

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I got both

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foreign

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nobody handles vegetables like they do

except maybe the Italians except maybe

your mother hey you listen to me now I

grew up down in the marketplace my

father had a little fruit and vegetables

stand ended up in wholesale I need some

chicken guy

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thank you

act like you cook

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the war is about more than battles and

body counts it's about homeless

Vietnamese gone where they don't know

but life sweeps them off babies are born

old women die couples find secret places

to make more babies people laugh and

while lovers whisper touch and dream

tarot is forgotten for a moment but the

war goes on

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thank you

thank you

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I've been thinking about you

all week

seeing you and

that's all I think about

I think I'm falling in love with you

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what

nothing

maybe I'm a jinx did you ever think of

that two men both dead you're the third

one

we're not in control of anything in this

and now what happened to Bill or Peter

or what might happen to me so stop

blaming yourself and stop

and stop running away from me

let's get out of here

are you angry with me in packs I'm angry

at myself

I'm the one who's at fault here I'm the

one who should feel guilty not you

I blamed you for Bill's death and I'll

regret that till the day I died

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thank you

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we'll get out of here all right finally

get off the street

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thank you

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terrible no you don't

you remember what you said before

earlier

about how everything that's happened is

it my fault

yeah and I meant it

when all those explosions started and

then you were gone

I suddenly realized you're right

we'll make our own choices

Bill and Peter made choices their own

not mine

and then I saw her almost through

every single way without making any

choice at all

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I love you Tony

No Doubt

because it won't work if you know

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thank you

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foreign

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thank you

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please

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tell me ambulance no airplanes it's

obviously

the baby the baby wants to come now

you can sure there's no time because

believe me France a hospitals

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but it looks like we're going to be

doing it

okay

all right relax relax

push

push

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that's it push

push

there she is there you go there she is

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little girl

girl

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we just died already if a girl her name

be Pakistan

oh

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okay

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the faces of Vietnam are sometimes

innocent

children's faces

shining through the war

we tell ourselves we're here to help

them but help is an illusion

and more and more we're finding out that

we're as helpless as they are

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Nam may break our hearts one day

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go back and I'll try and Felix everybody

out there thinks something really big is

gonna happen in the next two or three

days so I think you ought to get a

couple reporters out

what is what happened

where's Ralph

he's not back yet

they got him didn't they I'm near the

DMZ artillery battle

Ralph was right in the middle of it of

course

no fan in the world like you

me not ever

France doesn't know yet I'm afraid

we waited for you

tell me my hour to be there we

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she must be here

when you were here I knocked and called

out there was nothing

Franz

they're taking a nap

oh God what

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must have been poisoned

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who told her

two

damn it

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thank you

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they're called means her mouth is killed

it will be very bad for me and my sweet

babies

we have lives with an American

medical paint with Ralph then starving

worse on the streets of the city

you're a good person

forgive me

she's alive

oh

we gotta get her out of here

that's where she's going to be abandoned

in some gutter she's Eurasian

you get some of her stuff together I'm

calling the police and then we're out of

here

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I don't quite understand

all right thank you very much I

appreciate your time

foreign

is not in the business facilitating

foreign adoptions especially without

proof that the father was an American

and there is no proof Ralph never

registered her at the embassy

there are some American funded

orphanages here in Saigon

they're all overcrowded but once Francis

sold

and all of her things

the money will ease the baby's way help

keep her on food and clothes at least

I'd start with the analog orphanage

Felix I'm going to be moving back to the

hotel right away and there's going to be

a lot of help there yeah right why not

God's sakes you to what happens when you

leave and you will someday drop her off

on your way to the airport it seems to

me she'd be better off in an orphanage

where you can go and visit her whenever

you want

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the office is yours for as long as you

want

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thank you

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we have more than 100 children here

many of them are wounded from the war

at unlock We Believe children should

grow up in the land of their birth

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this will be Pakistan's crib we save it

for our newest young one because it

closed to the nursery station

you are Miss Andrews who writes for the

newspapers yes

yes many here in Vietnam read it you

understand our country

so you know no Vietnamese woman want to

hear a baby cry

stron will be more In Loving Arms than

in crib

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laughs

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it's not fair it's not fair shut up

Paxton of course it's not fair

that's our kid in there we brought her

into the world

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register her is my daughter and then

when they start giving me all that crap

about being a single parent because you

would not believe the stuff they lay on

soldiers who are just trying to take

their own Vietnamese kids you'll say

you're married right

will you Paxton

will you marry me yes

thank you

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Miss Andrews

may we come in

the wedding is at the embassy didn't

Tony tell you

my major Hammer this is Captain

O'Connell I'm Sorry Miss Anders but I

have some bad Miss Anders I know this is

difficult please don't miss Andrews

please

look you don't seem to understand Tony

and I are getting married today he's

missing in action

missing

machine where how the VC love to

infiltrate in bad weather Miss

a mission was sent out anyway and walked

into a major ambush

helicopters couldn't see a bloody thing

it was a colossal mess and before they

could get out there were some tremendous

losses

they returned to kuchi with Sergeant

Campobello unaccounted for

that's what we're trying to tell you

I'm wounded taking prisoner perhaps

maybe even dead we just don't know

well

we're just going to have to go out there

and find him Miss Andrews you just can't

go out

walk around ask who's seen Sergeant Camp

a fellow man that's just not acceptable

why not that's what I do I ask questions

so I will I will ask the pows the

wounded hell the villagers anybody who

knows anything

now if you gentlemen will excuse me

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ERS are missing in this small country

those who love them wonder and wait for

a phone call from Washington

and die a little every day without news

months pass years

do the brave lost men still know they're

remembered

the worst question is are they alive

those of us who are lucky who are here

in Vietnam

can search for them ourselves

we go from day to day

in Hope and fury and determination and

lacking even a rumor

we go into the night

in despair

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haven't seen you in a while

thank you

yeah drink this keep it from falling

down

come on come on come on come on

that's not what

no sound of him

no hope at all anymore

I promised him I would be here for him

but if he's not

where would there be a need for you

I used to

I used to dream of

green rice patties

now if I sleep I drink

I dream of mud

and death

all I can smell is death

when women here killed their own

children

Felix all of my um columns sound the

same lately

how old are you Paxton

26.

you look so washed out nobody believe it

I'm too licks

two weeks can you imagine

me riding for the times

I offered to cover the Paris peace talks

for them

I told them

uh what did I say I I said that I would

bring a wealth of experience and

understanding of the principles

I don't know what else

I bought it

oh that's great Paxton

well if you don't want this here's to

you

a hell of a writer and the best Delta

Delta that ever walked off a plane and

said God

gonna miss you kid

we all are

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so were you um go and visit Pax Trail

for me often yeah

and then you know if you hear anything

or anything

doing that too

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I'll be sending more money

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and if you need me for any reason here's

the number don't know how to find me

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um I'm leaving Vietnam

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stay happy

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Kissinger's meeting with late doctor

last month has

breaking down

truce negotiators agreed to resume the

exchange of prisoners of War

this is the

beat service

and depending on you my fine gentleman

friend to tell my Paxton how much I love

her je'taime we will say because she

understands French very well

what do you suppose they call you in

Vietnam Mr teddy bear

hello Paxton

Felix listen you shouldn't get too

hopeful but some pows are being

assembled at Tansen Newton about five

days in a preliminary debriefing one of

them reports that a sergeant capabila

was still alive a year ago

oh my God

how is he what did they say no I don't

know much more than that they wouldn't

give the Press Your access to any of

these men

five days you say

I'll be there I'll be there before they

are

Helix thank you

I can never thank you enough forget

about that I just hope Tony's alive

now

the Air Force Lieutenant's name is uh

Peter Winthrop Winthrop that's right

Winthrop Peter Winthrop

bye

peanut

s

oh Peter

Lieutenant Winthrop Miss Andrews

Lieutenant Winthrop is right over there

the last out third from the left

foreign

thank you

he's not as out of it as he looks he's a

little slow right now but his mind is

gonna be fine

it's just download

I'm afraid he won't know anything after

all

or the Woody does know is bad

all right

I don't

know the name of the prison Miss

I don't think I ever did

it was

Maybe

a year ago

must have been

don't you think

it was when a couple of men escaped

no wait

three escape two are brought back

sorry

I am

had me strung out by my thumbs at the

time

I can't remember things

the two that got caught

so that the other guy got away

didn't get killed

not at that time anyhow

he wasn't brought back either so and

this third man was Sergeant Tony

Campobello

tough Tony

showed us all how to survive

he had to have made it Miss he had to

for the years long times

it's a very long time

excuse me the doctor has to see you now

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you can keep that

I have others

you

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the country has changed and so has the

war few of our troops are left here but

in spite of the truce Vietnam continues

to fight itself bombs blow up people

live in Terror suffer and die

the deal goes on too for those of us who

have men missing

when America leaves Vietnam at last and

the fate of those men is still unknown

the ordeal will become an agony

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Express

what's going on he's hit the fan Paxton

the state department is shutting us down

if anybody wants to hang around until

the curtain Falls they got to do it at

the end but see I hope to God they're

enough confidence to get us out of here

we can't go through this I found out

about Tony he has some beard Felix

that's why no one's recognizing there's

nothing to do it's over

he's alive

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oh my God

you've got to let me have what will you

do with her even if you find the space

no plane would take her without a

passport how can you get a passport for

Pakistan but we share good visitors with

perba Foundation

lost children over there sick children

they stay in Vietnam

these children

they pass health inspection they go

take turn will go Miss Andrews when I

hope soon American government believed

that we will find good home for healthy

children in the states

perhaps you will find Pakistan in the

states

excuse me now very busy that's not good

enough

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thank you

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foreign

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thank you

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location an American let it through

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that you okay

I spent all day yesterday at the embassy

trying to get a visa for PAX Chan I

couldn't get anywhere

the orphanage promises to put on a plane

back to the States but that's all

they'll tell me

if you have any strings left to pull

Felix pool now I don't have enough

influence to fill a thimbled Paxton and

nobody else does either hell I can't

even help the women's get my house ready

except give us some money

for all the good that Donald's doing now

so what's going on here The Barbarians

are at the gates of the city they'll be

coming down the boulevard before we know

it probably well before we lost

supposed to come and give us a briefing

two and a half hours ago

the honorables are leaving huh

goodness no facts

pouches before people don't you know

that

then the honorables

than us I've been hearing horror stories

about what's going to happen to these

kids after we leave

Eurasian kids especially

kidnapped sold the military camps to be

used misused

everybody please listen up first up

you're advised not to go outside the

embassy walls for any purpose whatsoever

second up

foreign

Mr Tomlinson what about the Mias

well obviously Miss Anders

pows and the Mias are

on hold right now

as soon as their talks

both will be a prime interest to your

government so in other words that dump

I've just received a report

and you'll know what I know when you

hear it

okay

this morning's baby plane just crashed

on takeoff at tanza nude airport

casualties are uncertain but probably

heavy

accent don't do this the closing the

gate to hurt the men

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the children please

oh God

so sorry about that plane I'm so sorry

with my packs turned on it

no

where is she

she would have gone tomorrow but her

father came

oh God you didn't let some man come take

her her father

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up

oh

my God

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thank you

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assistant who was right

you are packs Transformer

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to the Embassy can you make it

I never made it this far

we better believe I can do it

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foreign

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foreign

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but without it I'd never have come

through the Journey that began 11 years

ago in Savannah and returned me again

and again to the land that held my

future Vietnam

my journey hasn't ended

but it will be smoother now

for I'm no longer traveling alone

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