Scarborough Fair And Other Stories
“Their fights weren’t noisy, they were the low, nasty kind, full of sharp hisses and angry looks like poison darts. It hadn’t always been that way. You’d think after all those years and raising three kids everything would have been ironed out by now, smooth and sweet as one of the well blended milkshakes they used to share at the soda fountain before Woody got drafted. Sometimes it was almost like that for them, but always there was a distance, however slight, like the edge of a sock caught in a... drawer that kept it from closing. In the Johanson’s marriage, the thing between them wasn’t a sock. It was a ghost.
Had Woody Johanson never gone to Vietnam, or been in the firefight which killed his buddy, Nick Amato, maybe Woody and his high school sweetheart, Becky would have been happy. But Nam was always there, like the scar Johanson carried as a permanent souvenir from the firefight that got him a three day R&R at a field hospital. The scar was a tangible reminder, as was Amato’s lighter, the deluxe metal Zippo with the 1st Cav insignia, Johanson had borrowed just before all hell broke loose.MoreLess
Had Woody Johanson never gone to Vietnam, or been in the firefight which killed his buddy, Nick Amato, maybe Woody and his high school sweetheart, Becky would have been happy. But Nam was always there, like the scar Johanson carried as a permanent souvenir from the firefight that got him a three day R&R at a field hospital. The scar was a tangible reminder, as was Amato’s lighter, the deluxe metal Zippo with the 1st Cav insignia, Johanson had borrowed just before all hell broke loose.MoreLess
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