The Re-Con
And It Was So: through history walls rose from distortions of truth and justice
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Stop this one: rise
Past Perfect
Fear and Laughter in Laredo: growing up under the mushroom cloud, Part 2
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The Cuban Missile Crisis was no joke: our little nuclear family was at the mercy of a high-stakes game of nuclear chicken
Past Perfect
Our children claim to know us throughout, but they’ve never understood our fear of annihilation by atomic blast
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I am remembering the opposite of nostalgia: recurrent memories of childhood fear
The Re-Con
Corrections, detention — euphemisms to reassure the un-incarcerated that what the authorities do behind the walls and concertina wire is moral, ethical, humane, and necessary
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Attica massacre of September 1971: 11 employees, 32 inmates
Past Perfect
The time machine is ready; the batteries are charged
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Órale. Hop in. The dial is set to 1959
The Re-Con
Accounting for Pagans
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Taking the stairways of words and numbers to find those that count and retain meaning through time
Santa Maria Journal
I am in no rush for the ineluctable departure from the earthly plane, but I have questions
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Like the baby calf dropped at the edge of the wilderness, I move in small, tentative lurches toward a place yet known to me
The Re-Con
Ich bin: being German in post-WWII America
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Swastikas that Jimmy Clarken and other kids drew on their notebook covers no longer seemed like innocent doodles or attempts at teenage rebellion