Word: deserter
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...story line is even more complex than Volver's, spanning three continents and a dozen major characters, most of whom never meet one another. Yet their most innocent actions - giving a present to a stranger, escorting two kids to a wedding, taking target practice in the North African desert - have startling, perhaps tragic repercussions on the others...
Lauren Richardson, 14, knows about the sand on the other side of the world, where her parents are now. It gets everywhere, covers everything; the very desert rises up and leans forward, waiting for what comes next. Just like Lauren...
...Some recorded favorite books or hymns or lullabies before they left, so their kids could remember what Mama sounds like. Some put up maps in their children's bedrooms, so they will know where Mom is. Laura carries her family pictures in the humvee that takes her across the desert between base camps, and she doesn't have to be prompted to take them...
...battalion command, and never before has a couple gone to war commanding battalions in the same Army unit. But the 101st has a habit of making history: during World War II, it led the way on D-day, dropping in the night before the invasion. In 1991, during Operation Desert Storm, the Screaming Eagles were the "first band in the sand" and fired the first shot...
...work hours reading blogs about them, emotionally invested myself in their travails. But last week my two beloved teams, Barcelona and Arsenal, played each other in the final of the UEFA Champions League in Paris. What glory! What pain! This was the sporting equivalent of those thought experiments about desert-island cannibalism. Which of my loves would I be forced...