Born of War

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To all those who served with the Army’s 96th Infantry Division and the Marine Corp’s 1st Marine Division waging the battle of Okinawa in spring 1945. And to Tech Corporal Bert Harp, who was one of them.

William Parker’s hands were covered in blood.

It will wash off, he told himself, half asleep.

He stared at his hands in the dim light and knew it wasn’t true. This was the kind of blood that woke him up in the middle of the night, that pulled him out of bed soaked in sweat.

Parker had been raised on hunting. A deer shot on a cold November morning bled, but that blood washed off easily. The deer didn’t deserve to die. It didn’t have a name, but it did have a purpose. It provided food.

“Neither wound nor kill for no reason,” his father had said.

William Parker’s father had been killed aboard Pan Am Flight 103. Taken by a terrorist’s bomb. The men who’d killed him deserved to die. Their blood washed off.

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