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battles across the cities. i was in an area i shouldn t have been and a guy emerged and put an ak-47 to my ear and i looked down and he had a boy scout shirt with davenport, iowa on it. i thought wait a minute. it s nations that go to war, it s not boy scout uniforms. i realized how undone everything was taken for granted was becoming. tribal and ethnic conflicts broke out. saddam hussein decided to invade his oil-rich neighbor. in 1990, america came to the defense of kuwait. president bush and james baker got high praise to the coalition they assemble and for the plan led by norman schwartz kof. it would be bloody indeed. war is bloody.
very remote little place in southwestern south dakota where they were stored ordnance coming up from denver. bombs, ammunition. they were exploding it out in this desert. everyone was coming home from war, going to war. i wore a helmet every day, wore it to class. those war years stayed with me. soon after vj day, the end of the war, my family moved to a new town filled with veterans. lot of logos there for the american legion, lot of flags, lot of ribbons. but not a word about the war. not one word about it. they were let s call them modest. they weren t braggarts about what they had done. what they had done was save the world. i often thought of a story my mother told me about a very kind neighbor, a former marine, gordon larson. gordon larson came around, and one morning after halloween he was complaining about high school kids, how they behaved the night before. my mother was like what were you doing when you were 17?
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