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all but those very close to the house. Many on the lawn ignore him. They turn to neighbors and resume old conversation, some apparently glad to be spared the sermon.
How sad. This is a neighborhood crowd. Surely they know better. Surely most have been here before, surely they heard him being introduced. And in this, one of Virginia’s most conservative regions, surely most people are open to his words and in agreement with his ideas. But'like rude dinner guests who dive in without waiting for the grace, they continued on, oblivious to an old man and his outpouring of love.
I strain to hear him, but cannot make out his words over the conversations all around me. Something in me want to scream, “Quiet! At ease, you idiots! Don’t you understand? Don’t you know why we’re here? Don’t you feel, really feel, what this day is all about?” I sit there as the night gathers around us, with the faint mummer of his voice lost in the cacophony around me. I feel ashamed for these people. Such unthinking, uncaring disrespect of a generous man and the love feu our independence that he wants to share with them.
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My wife and I had been in Korea about six months when we had our first opportunity to vacation and visit sites outside of Seoul. Peggy was in the Army, assigned in Seoul on a one-year tour. It was an unaccompanied tour so I, as any army spouse, was expected to stay in the States. But by great luck, my company had just been awarded a contract to install a computer network for the Republic of KoreaUnited States Combined Forces Command and the vice president responsible offered to relocate me to Seoul. We were overjoyed to be together. We got Korean apartment “on the economy,” bought some local furniture, and tried to “go native” as best as a westerner can.
We began our vacation with a flight to Cheju-do, an island off the peninsula’s southern coast, on it whirlwind USO tour organized for American servicemen and their families. From there, we eft the group to see more of the country on our own. As the tour returned to Seoul, we flew to Taegu in the southeastern part of the peninsula, planning to visit Haein Temple, a 9th Century Buddhist temple in the mountains west of the city, then take a bus to Kyongju, the
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