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...show's climactic flashback and visual signature, audiences relive a humiliating moment from the nightly newscasts of April 1975: the last U.S. helicopter to leave hovers just above the embassy in Saigon, its rotors whirring and its engine aroar, while behind a barred gate a throng of dependents, informers, helpers and hangers-on howl to be rescued. Among them is the title character, Kim, a peasant virgin turned bar girl turned soldier's wife-to-be, forlornly waving the now useless paper that says she is entitled to join the soldier far away. That moment shapes Kim's life...
...next morning, a Crimson reporter telephoned San Juan International Airport and was put through to the gate where Feldstein was about to board a flight to St. Thomas. The reporter could hear Feldstein being paged on the public address system, but there was no response. A few minutes later, a gate agent took the caller's name and phone number and then checked with a man who sounded like Feldstein. She then came back on the line to say that the gate was very busy and that she would make sure that the First Class flight attendant would...
...kill 100,000 people and to feel no pain at having done so may be dangerous to those who did the killing. It hints at an impaired humanity, a defect like a gate through which other deaths may enter, deaths no one had counted on. The unquiet dead have many ways of haunting -- particularly in the Middle East, which has been accumulating the grievances of the dead for thousands of years...
...welcomers gathered, waving American flags and yellow ribbons. A few snapped to attention and saluted as the motorcade sped by. Navy ombudsman Denise Allshouse said, "This is just the start of the celebration. The major welcome will be when that big, white, beautiful ship comes home through the Golden Gate in a few weeks...
...need for such an exorcism must have been felt by the anonymous U.S. Marine who, shortly after Kuwait City's liberation, paid a call on the deserted American embassy. He carried with him an old American flag, which he left at the gate of the embassy compound. Asked why by an Associated Press reporter, the Marine said the flag had been given to him 23 years earlier by a dying comrade in Vietnam. For the Marine in Kuwait City, and for many Americans who took justified pride in the U.S.'s military performance in the gulf, a circle had been...