Dien Cai Dau

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Contents Camouflaging the Chimera 3 Tunnels 5 Somewhere Near Phu Bai 7 Starlight Scope Myopia 8 Red Pagoda 10 A Greenness Taller Than Gods 11 The Dead at Quang Tri 12 Hanoi Hannah 13 Roll Call 15 Fragging 16 "You and I Are Disappearing55 17 2527th Birthday of the Buddha 18 Re-creating the Scene 19 Night Muse & Mortar Round 21 One More Loss to Count 22 Sappers 24 Nude Pictures 25 We Never Know 26 A Break from the Bush 27 Seeing in the Dark 28 Tu Do Street 29 Communique 30 The Edge 32 Donut Dollies 34 Prisoners 35 Jungle Surrender 37 Eyeball Television 39 The One-legged Stool 40 Short-timer5 s Calendar 43 Thanks 44 To Have Danced with Death 46 Report from the Skull's Diorama 47 Combat Pay for Jody 49 Sunset Threnody 51 After the Fall 53 Saigon Bar Girls, 1975 54 Toys in a Field 56 Boat People 57 Dui Boiy Dust of Life 5 8 Missing in Action 59 Losses 61 Between Days 62 Facing It 63 viii D I E N C A I D A U This page intentionally left blank ...