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First came the wail of a siren across the valley, and then because light travels faster than blood, we saw an explosion, and a second later we felt it and heard the ear-splitting blast.
War never ends: It sends shock waves down through the generations that follow. #MemorialDay
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The second blast sounded like the last trump at judgment day. It was so loud I thought the rear windshield was going to burst and the filling in my tooth was going to fall out.
I decided I would not sell this farm if the Devil himself promised me pretty girls, fame, or all the money in the world.
Grandma and I just sat there. We didn't say a word, but I knew what she was thinking.
Bobby Ray's dead and Saigon has surrendered. Just like that. Her only boy and my only Dad, out there in the ground behind Wesley Memorial Methodist Church.
Ike noticed the preacher had pictures of Ronald Reagan and Jesse Helms in his office, with a portrait of Jesus in the middle. Ike said that seemed appropriate since the Bible said Jesus was nailed up between two thieves. The preacher didn't like that much, so Ike quit going to church for awhile.
We sat like store mannequins, not moving a muscle, following it with our eyes. I looked for something to kill it with, but there was nothing.
-Russell Ray Teague
Here's the deal with women. You provide the food, shelter and money and she provides you with gratitude and sex. Isn't that how it works?" -Tommy Gabbert
When I got to the truck, the dream-woman, the nurse was lying on the seat. She was sobbing. Well, I felt like I'd had about enough excitement for one night.
She had a way about her that spoke of homemade bread, and caring for people, and the kind of patience that women have when they help a ewe birth a lamb, or stay up in the night with a baby calf bawling for its momma.
We focused our attention on the tall businessman. His rhetoric did not soar. Even his voice was gray; bleak like a dead possum in melting, muddy snow.
Early one morning in the spring of 1985, I woke up and walked through the valley of the shadow of death, and didn't even know it.
The crickets got quiet and the wind died down. It was so still, I felt like the world had stopped.
-Russell Ray Teague, When Saigon Surrendered:
a Kentucky Mystery
You will curl your lip and want to spit. But I don't care. A man can carry something like this inside him for only so long. Then it's got to come out.
