Those who can believe that such stories are only stories have a better chance.
“I’d never been so proud—to be British, to be a soldier, to be his brother in arms. I told him so. I told him I wanted to buy him a beer for getting to the top of that wall. No, no, a crate of beer. He laughed. Wouldn’t say no to that, mate!”
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“I was twenty-one, awash in isolation and privilege, and if I thought anything about this word at all, I thought it was like Aussie. Harmless.”
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“when I came to my fellow cadet and good friend Ahmed Raza Kahn, a Pakistani, I said: Ah, our little Paki friend…”
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“For several weeks they poked my body, probed my mind. Drug-free, they concluded. They seemed surprised.”
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