Word: paines
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...getting fat and sighting down the road toward middle age. Why is it that so many of them, so many of those Americans who fought the war, still return to it with sharp, deep, sometimes obsessive memories?tonguing the bad tooth, re-enacting the most vivid playlets of pain and horror? Why can't they let it go? Bad war. Sorry about that. Now get on with it, son, you're pushing...
...then forget where it has been put." But the war in Viet Nam cannot be discarded with impetuous American blitheness. The civic and psychic mechanics don't work that way. The men (and as many as 7,500 women) who served in the war brought back with them pain and problems ? rage and guilt, sorrows and confusions ? that have gone ignored and unattended for years. Now, at last, they seem to be commanding some attention...
...Rage and Pain...
...overweight jogger clutches his chest and sinks painfully to the sand, his ticker in mortal distress. He will lie there-at first in pain, later in death-for most of S. O. B. That is because it is his misfortune to have been taking his exercise in the world capital of self-absorption, the beach at Malibu, where movie people tend their tans, mend their deals and bend their minds with all sorts of curious additives. Dying is something that happens to your friend's act in Vegas or your rival's picture in Gotham. It is acceptable...
...brought a thin foamy red to his mouth each time he breathed. His flanks were wet and hot and flies were on the little openings the solid bullets had made in his tawny hide, and his big yellow eyes, narrowed with hate, looked straight ahead, only blinking when the pain came as he breathed, and his claws dug in the soft baked earth. All of him, pain, sickness, hatred and all of his remaining strength, was tightening into an absolute concentration for the rush. He could hear the men talking and he waited, gathering all of himself into this preparation...