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...thirty p.m. is a sacred time in American life, but one also often filled with dread. Mom and Dad are home from work, Junior's back from piano and Sis from soccer, and everyone's washed up and ready to eat. We count on dinner as the family hour yet know that at any moment it could be punctured by a phone call from some scripted stranger hawking island vacations or aluminum siding...
...Count on Hormones...
...left arm ends in a stump?his hand was removed in a 1974 jungle amputation. One of only four people in the village with some writing skills, he is a meticulous keeper of village statistics?there are 56 orphaned children, 40 widows and 11 widowers. By Moua's count, 30% of the villagers have shrapnel wounds. In 1975, when Vang fled Laos, Moua recorded his group at 7,000 people. Today there are only about 800 left...
...Xaysomboune while a gunship strafed them from above. In all, 216 Hmong were killed. Such assaults can come at any time. Last August, a mortar round landed less than a meter from nine-year-old Yeng Houa's family dinner table, killing both his parents. Yeng survived, but I count 18 shrapnel scars on his legs, his jaw is broken and there is an infected sore on his inner thigh. Since the attack, he has not spoken...
...privilege and an honor to play for Carole for four years,” said Maggie Vaughan ’90, the captain of Harvard’s national championship team. “And it’s continued to be an honor to count her as a mentor and a friend...