Viv found the essay in a newspaper, clipped it out, and sent it to Senator Taft, along with letters diligently copied from originals pouring in from servicemen stationed around the globe. Men who were watching the invasion from afar, aghast and disheartened that they weren’t fighting alongside their brothers. The ASEs provided them an escape from the feelings that they, just like the rest of the world, didn’t know what to do with. Books gave them an excuse to cry, a reason to laugh, a place to put their relief that they weren’t the ones being slaughtered, a place to put the guilt that they
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