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The War

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Chet, carry me over here so I can reach this branch.

The War

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Go to the principal's office.

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war will never understand people.

The War

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Mom says that war destroyed our lives.

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I landed three jobs after the war.

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You done the right thing, going to war.

The War

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He's back.

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My name's Lidia Simmons, and I'm 12 years old.

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And these here are my memoirs.

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I can't really tell you much about me nor my life

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without first I tell you about my brother Stu.

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All spring Stu had been kind of quiet.

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Perhaps it was because a couple months earlier

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our father had gone out looking for work and never returned.

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It wasn't the first time Dad went away.

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Ever since he'd come back from Vietnam, things hadn't been just right.

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Mom held two jobs just to make ends meet,

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and we were still dirt poor like everybody else in Juliette, Mississippi.

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But this June morning in 1970 was different.

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All the flowers were in bloom,