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Blows Against the Empire by Peter Nolan Smith

May 27, 2020 – 9:37 pm

Early in April 2001 a task force supporting the aircraft carrier US Kitty Hawk anchored off Pattaya. Its 12,000 soldiers and sailors invaded the go-go bars of Beach Road and I avoided the chaos without taking into account my Thai girlfriend’s displeasure at having to stay home night after night. “I not leave farm to […]

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JETS OVERHEAD by Peter Nolan Smith

August 16, 2010 – 7:15 pm

Falmouth Foresides was a quiet neighborhood in the 50s. Ships blew their horns leaving Portland Harbor and channel buoys tolled out their passing wake. At night I listened to the Celtics game on a small transistor radio from Japan. The volume turned to almost silence. My older brother was a light sleeper. Mornings belonged to […]

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