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“هجرتُ البعض طوعاً لِأنني
رأيتُ قلوبهم تهوى فِراقي
نعمْ أشتاق ، لكن وضعتُ
كرامتي فوق إشتياقيّ
وأرغبْ وصلهمْ دوماً ولكن
طريقُ الذل لا تهواهُ ساقيّ”
―
رأيتُ قلوبهم تهوى فِراقي
نعمْ أشتاق ، لكن وضعتُ
كرامتي فوق إشتياقيّ
وأرغبْ وصلهمْ دوماً ولكن
طريقُ الذل لا تهواهُ ساقيّ”
―
“The verdict got both the fish and me off the hook.”
― Death Leaves a Shadow
― Death Leaves a Shadow
“We beat the drum slowly and played the fife lowly,
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."
The Cowboy's Lament”
― So Brave, Young, and Handsome
and bitterly wept as we bore him along.
For we all loved our comrade so brave, young and handsome,
we all loved our comrade although he'd done wrong."
The Cowboy's Lament”
― So Brave, Young, and Handsome
“But every time I shunned books, as scholars sometimes do, cursed them as verbal graveyards, and tried to make contact with the common folk, I ran up against the kids in our building and felt fortunate, after a few brushes with those little cannibals, to return to my reading in one piece.”
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“More bombs had been dropped in North and South Vietnam by the beginning of 1968 than had been dropped over Europe in all of World War II, three times more than were dropped in the Pacific theater, and twice as many as in Korea.”
― Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
― Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam
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