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By THAD HUMPHRIES
Rappahannock News Contributing Writer
This is Part II of a two-part '.story about what freedom really means to all of us.
I blinked, trying to adjust my eyes to the light that came from a * few small candles and the louvered 1 widows high on the wall. The room ; was about twenty by forty feet, with dark walls, and a dark, shining wooden floor. Along one of the . shorter walls there was a long, low chest of simple Yi Dynasty design with dull brass fixtures and Chinese markings on its many drawers. Incense burned from two ' small urns on top of the chest and above them, on the wall, hung three . large painting of Korean monks.
Our host asked us to sit and * motioned toward the floor before the cabinet. The young man pointed out my place, and I knelt as my college kendo instructor once taught me. The man sat next to me and his wife sat behind us. The old monk knelt next to the cabinet and pulled open a drawer. From the drawer he carefully brought our a . scroll and placed it on the floor before us, reverently rolling it out some four feet. He repeated this action twice, revealing to us three scrolls of Chinese calligraphy, each obviously of some age. When he finished spreading the scrolls, he squared his Bhould be and began speaking slowly. The young man translated as best he could and f followed with wrapped attention.
“Our hermitage was founded in 1607 of the Christian era by Samyongdang, a hero in the struggle against the Japenese during the Hideyoshi invasion.” The monk pointed to the center painting on the wall. “These are some of his
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