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Mark Haddon’s the curious incident of the dog in the night-time stirred me to read a spot of bother. Haddon gets inside the head of George, Jean, Katie, Jamie, nearly everyone. But not David. David?

The war in Iraq was declared ended a few minutes ago. Personal memories of my country ending a war. Newsreels of Dachau. Mushroom cloud. Helicopters desperately lifting people to U. S. Navy warships offshore as Saigon was overrun. Marine barracks at Beirut Airport 1983. Blackhawk Down 1993. Victory declaration aboard USS ABRAHAM LINCOLN 2003. Afghanistan?

Sunday School this week: Virgin Birth. Sermon? Roaming a junkyard while singing “On the Wings of a Nightingale” the Everly Brothers rescue a 1957 Chevy Bel Air convertible. Is there a ’57 Chevy in my sermon junkyard?

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