Now I have never seen many war stories on this site...

...until I posted Frontlines.

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So, my mom invited some friends over, and at some point while we were having dinner, the conversation turned to comparing the Korean and Vietnam wars, because her friends were Korean, and my parents (even though they aren't fully Vietnamese) came from Vietnam. I already knew quite a bit of my dad's side of the story, but until today I really haven't heard all that much about my mom's experience in Vietnam. So, I listened in, and now I'ma post because this is 2020 and I'm some guy on the

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Who'd have thought that the Star Wars movie I was most apprehensive about would turn out to be my absolute favorite out of the new series?

Set some time between Episodes III and IV, Solo is a story that few thought needed to be told: the origins of Harrison Ford's cocky smuggler Han Solo. Where did he come from? How did he meet the mighty Chewbacca? How did he get the starship Millennium Falcon?

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Tis the season for all sorts of stuff. Whether it's shopping, shipping or heading to church there's something that you're going to be doing. I can't offer much in the way of advice as to what to do at church though if I followed the rules set forth for me it was, "Sing when they sing, don't talk or fidget and drink what they give you."

"But dad," I'd say, "It's blood!"

"You're a vampire now son! Drink up!'

"And the cracker?"

"That's his flesh."

"How BIG was this guy?"

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Joe Haldeman served a tour of duty in the Vietnam War, before he became well known as a science fiction writer.

I'm vacillating between blogging this story as providing examples partway through of the kind of dark humor, even graveyard humor, that sometimes shows up as a coping mechanism in war...

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