Sherry Chandler » Here’s a thing to break a mother’s heart
Here’s a thing to break a mother’s heart
Louise Erdrich has this article on the op-ed page of the NYTimes – An Army of One:
Minneapolis
I FIRST noticed that he was unusually polite when I brushed by him to get into my middle seat on the plane out of Los Angeles. Then I saw the rose at his feet. It was a long-stemmed red rose. I’d nearly stepped on it. I showed him how to roll it in a magazine and we put it safely in the seat pocket. He looked at my newspaper and said he was interested in Iraq.
“Why?” I asked, though I could tell by now.
“I just came from there.”
His eyes were a clear, pale, unusual green. His cheeks thin and sunburned. He could not keep still. His fingers fluttered, his eyes darted to each person who entered the aisle. He told me that he’d graduated two years ago from his high school outside Seattle on a Friday and that he had enlisted on the following Monday. “Because I’m sort of patriotic.”
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