... by ranks. Everyone started coughing and screaming: it was horrible! Unfortunately for me, I was in the last row (all the way in the back) so I was one of the last ones out of the chamber. When we came out, our eyes burned, mucus came out of our noses (it really cleared up the sinuses), and we were taken to a communal barrel filled with water where we washed our ... physical activity, we also took classes on Naval history, learned how to tie and name various knots, how to put out fires on the ship, and had to pass exams in order to graduate. Graduation day was on the horizon. I didn't th...

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... was not what I valued the most in my memories of Little Nebraska. The real treasure was an abandoned farm one to two miles out of town. This I did not discover until my last visit while one day wandering down a dirt path. There, was a wheat field that not only spanned the horizon but the imagination. It was one of the rare places where the lines between reality and fantasy ... are slightly blurred. It was the sunset that played ... over the field that could mesmerize and entrance you. This was what I was ... ...

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... to check on me. Standing up and nodding my head, I walked back into the living room with him. As the images on the TV continued to solidify the reality of the terrorist attacks, I looked out the window and saw dark, black clouds moving in on the horizon. Mashed Potatoes As I get off the plane, and step into the airport, I see mom and dad. Dad's standing there with his hands in ... a comment on how the tree trunk in the front yard looks thicker and the cat looks fatter. As we walk into the warm house, home is once again real and in front of me rather than a place I'm remembering in my im...

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... have new year dinner. Especially last year, we celebrated for one family member (my brother) who just came to US from VN. Normally, after my father's statement, everybody started eating, talking and giving to each other all the best wishes for new year. I sat at the corner of the table and looked at every single ... we had a lot of things to support: food, cloth, furniture, etc.. that is why we started to look for job right away. My father, the main worker in the family, found an assembly job but they paid him a little because he had no experience and he was old. Besides that, my brothe...

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... to the side of the raft, two children inside it, it was unimaginable. The roar of the lifeboat was heard as it crashed through the waves, there it was a bright yellow angel of a boat, and at last it was over. I recall being pulled up to the boat, then my brother and then the rest. ... with many aunties, uncles, cousins" brother, parents and grandparents. My immediate family consists of four people, my father, mother, brother and myself, being the youngest. My father is forty-six years old and was born in Sardinia and is part of a large family. He has four brothers and two sisters ... fro...

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