HE LIED

I tried to answer them, sitting on the beach, halfway around the world, at the edge of the South China Sea. "Let me tell you something...America has a resurgence of old fashioned patriotism that we have not seen since WWll. You are not fighting in an out of town ball game in a dark stadium on a rainy night with empty grandstands. We are with you. Your country is solidly with you."

When he comes home, he will find out I lied to him. But, by then, perhaps it won't hurt so much.
Gordon Baxter
1967