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Toys in a Field Using gun mounts for monkey bars, Vietnamese children play skin-the-cat, pulling themselves through— suspended in doorways of multimillion-dollar helicopters abandoned in white-elephant graveyards. With arms spread-eagled they imitate vultures landing in fields. Their play is silent as distant rain, the volume turned down on the six o'clock news, except for the boy with American eyes who keeps singing rat-a-tat-tat, hugging a broken machine gun. 56 ...

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