Word: intrepidly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intrepid voyagers usually includes returning U.S. veterans and naturalized American citizens, born in Viet Nam. "It's nice, flying into Saigon, not having to sit on a flak jacket," says Bob Handy, 55, of Santa Barbara, Calif., who served a year in Chu Lai with the Marines. "I'm going back because it's a beautiful country." Like most of her fellow Vietnamese- born travelers, Tran Thi Thuc, 49, a health-care worker from Kalamazoo, Mich., was hoping to visit relatives. "I have not seen my mother since 1975," she says, recalling a hasty departure with her husband...
That, in the long run, is the ethical dilemma of the Hollywood junket. Our intrepid reporter face down in the gutter: He left his heart and GPA in San Francisco and his dinner on the floor of his hotel room...
Beside the intrepid, naked reporter crouches another man. A big man. A man with the taut flanks and self-assured ease of a man who could only be lax team captain Buddy Bixford. The men crouch, together in the alleyway. There is silence...
Slowly, the big man begins to speak. Slowly, the intrepid reporter begins to listen. The big man tells a tale of loss, of suffering, of sturm, and of drang. But there is humor, too, in his voice. A quiet resolution. The firm determination of a man who refuses to be squashed by the turmoil of uncertain fate...
This is the story that one intrepid reporter heard that dark, oh-so-dark night, not long...