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To be displayed in The Room of the Unknown Lost Boy in Wizard Academy’s House of the Lost Boys, these three photos were taken by Campus Chronicler Speedy Peacock on a single day in Austin during the Vietnam War. (L to R) (1.) LBJ, President of the United States – (2.) An unnamed girl in Zilker Park – (3.) General William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam from 1964 to 1968.  According to Biography.com, “Westmoreland was initially a popular figure, becoming a full four-star general and being named TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year” in 1965, but the bitter legacy of his role in the war haunted him, as the number of U.S. troops engaged grew from less than 20,000 to approximately 500,000, and victory was elusive. He died in South Carolina in 2005.”  Click the image to see it bigger.

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“In James Michener’s 937-page epic novel, Hawaii, (1959) we hear rip-roaring, red-blooded, hell-raising, whaling captain Rafer Hoxworth tell his favorite grandson, ‘…what a man’s got to discover is that there’s no gain in loving a particular woman, it’s the idea of woman that you’re after.’

Three pages later, at the exact tipping point of this 937-page book, we read the conclusion of the old man’s instructions. “There was a moment of silence, and then Rafer said, ‘When Noelani’s mother died, she weighed close to four hundred pounds. Your great-grandmother. And every day her husband crawled into her presence on his hands and knees, bringing her flower chains. That’s a good thing for a man to do.’

A few hundred pages later in that same book we read of a pivotal moment in the life of Rafer Hoxworth’s grandson’s grandson, ‘…and as the palms toward the shore dipped toward the lagoon, Hoxworth Hale had a strikingly clear intuition: ‘From now on whenever I think of a woman, in the abstract… of womanliness, that is… I’ll see this brown-skinned Bora Bora girl, her sarong loosely about her hips, working coconut and humming softly in the shadowy sunlight. Has she been here, under these breadfruit trees, all these  last empty years?” And he had a second intuition: that during the forthcoming even emptier years, she would still be there, a haunting vision of the other half of life, the womanliness, the caretaking symbol, the majestic, lovely, receptive other half.”

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