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Tue Oct-25-05 11:52 AM
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58. I once asked my Dad if he killed anybody in Vietnam.

We were on the Autobahn in Germany at the time. He pulled off at the nearest exit, came to a stop, turned off the car, and said "You don't ever ask anybody a question like that." I think I was about 13 or 14, but the message hit me a like a ton of fucking bricks.

Only much later did my Dad sit me and my brother down for a long (2 hour) recitation of his exploits in Vietnam, including the answer to the question I posed years earlier.

Very, very sobering experience.

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