Great Regulars: So what drew the airman there, to fight?

"A lonely impulse of delight," he says. What else can I say, beyond that?

I let him disappear into my mind. I remember a story book--it's actually "Make Way for Ducklings" now that I think of it, but I made it into one of those books that you flip the pages fast and it looks like the images are moving. What made me think of that? I guess the danger, the innocent ducks trying to get through the traffic. The ducks made it; the soldier didn't.

[by Fleda Brown]

Here, In Silence, Are Eight More

from Fleda Brown: The Washington Post: Political Poet's Choice: "Here, in Silence" by Fleda Brown

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