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This re-worked version of an earlier story has just been published on CafeLit.
Six Crooked Highways 
I remember the earlier version. Really nice work, here!
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Many thanks, Liz.
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That is a great story.
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Coming from you, Cage, I am honoured that you thought so.
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Good job Doug. You often leave me intrigued as to how much is your creative imagination or… Nevertheless, a well written piece that I enjoyed and left me wondering…
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Thanks, Brian. I always like to leave my readers in suspenders. 🙂
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Wow wow wow…left me hushed, Doug…so heartbreaking. And fine writing, of course.
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Thanks, Zelda. Exactly the response I was looking for.
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You’re welcome–I’m a fan 🙂 The topic is dear to my heart…after the Viet Nam vets came home and began writing their stories, I was working in a library–and I connected with a guy for the purpose of wanting to do some type of volunteer support. Mostly I wrote letters–but the local funding where many of the vets hung out together was cut. People didn’t care, didn’t want to hear about what happened overseas–and what didn’t happen when they returned. The odd part is that I didn’t know anyone personally who had served in Viet Nam, didn’t lose anyone close to me–yet it still affected me deeply. The war trauma (physical & mental), Agent Orange, and ostracism here at home took a toll on so many. And still we go to war…and suffer the casualties, nothing gained. It’s late, I’d better stop. Take care of you.
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You’re right, we never learn. The saddest insight into that phenomenon is the movie ‘Wag the dog’, where politics as theatre is laid out
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I haven’t seen the movie, but I trust you’re right!!
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You’re right that we never learn when it comes to war and we remain perpetually gullible.
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