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[benclarkson]

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[bryanharryrombough]

But what a story he had to tell me, as one-pointed and resonant as any war story I ever heard, it took me a year to understand it:  "Patrol went up the mountain.  One man came back.  He died before he could tell us what happened." I waited for the rest, but it seemed not to be that kind of story: when I asked him what had happened he just looked like he felt sorry for me, fucked if he'd waste time telling stories to anyone dumb as I was.

Dispatches by Bryan Rombough Via Flickr: Michael Herr, Avon: Discus Books, 1980. Found at Black Squirrel Books.