Word: joys
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I served most of my time in the Saudi Arabian desert just south of Iraq and Kuwait, I was in Kuwait City last March, right after the end of the war. Many others have written about the joy of the Kuwaiti people after their liberation, but I want to add some thoughts about the real meaning of one man's heart felt "thank...
Something tells me that songs like "Voices that Care" and "God Bless the USA" already sound sappy to many people. Nevertheless, these songs literally made everyone quiet and brought tears of pride and joy to everyone's eyes in the Gulf. The fact is that we, the soldiers and sailors of Desert Storm, were strong because America was strong...
Davies' narrative style is playful to the end, and this sustains the book. Finally, the Sniffer is revenged, the present accounted for and Gil learns, ironically, to "Wake up, man! Come alive! Feel before you think! "The true joy of the novel is not in the final revenge nor even in the final lesson, but in the grace and wit with which Davies renders a history and in the sweet and artful confusion of Gil's afterlife...
...straight roommate insisted that I go to a dance and at least get to see the community that I spent so much time condemning). That night, I felt my heart flip for the very first time at the sight of a beautiful woman; I got to know the joy of loving someone and being "in love" with that person all at the same time. I had never felt that way about any of the men I dated...
...rich memories from a quarter-century at the pinnacle of power came together to genially exaggerate their affection for one another and to welcome Reagan to full status in the select library fraternity. Never before had five Presidents been on the same platform. There was a kind of sad joy on that parched hilltop 2,700 miles west of the real Oval Office. It was a perch of aging eagles. History made, history remembered, history fading...