Unconventional Warfare by Chris Lynch

Author:Chris Lynch
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Daniel,

You know I have been uneasy for some time. I worry about you. I worry about not knowing. I worry about what I see in the news and what seems to be an alarming turn of events in the political situation here and the aggression and geopolitical situation where you are.

Which brings me to the question of where you are.

Daniel, when I believed you were in Thailand I was relatively comforted by that thought, because everyplace else in that part of the world seemed more dangerous. Despite the fact that I had to work hard to believe you, that was still some comfort.

Do you remember Father Marcotte? From the parish? He’s over there, as you may know. And, well, Father Marcotte is sure that he saw you in a place called Chu Lai. He said he was in a moving vehicle while you were walking through the camp, otherwise he would have spoken to you. Still, he was certain it was you. Sure enough that he told his mother so.

Priests do not lie to their mothers, Daniel, as you know.

I suppose I’m wishing you were a priest right now, rather than a soldier, so that at least I could get the truth.

No, that is a lie. I wish you were neither.

See, that’s the thing about lying. It gets contagious.

I love you. I miss you. I worry for you, son.

Write me something I can use?

Love,

Dad

PS The boys say they have only just now gotten all of your smell out of the house. They’re just being wise guys. I know better. I can still smell you everywhere.

It can be hard to keep up with correspondence, under my current circumstances. But there are some letters that demand immediate attention. Unless you’re a complete rat of a son.

Dear Dad,

“A moving vehicle.” He said so himself. A MOVING vehicle. How can anybody, even a priest, have the power to tell one grunt from a thousand other grunts—when really they all look basically like me anyway—from a vehicle traveling at speed, over an almost certainly rutted and cratered road, under the stressful air base conditions in present-day Vietnam? Which, as I understand from hearing others talk, are much more stressful than anything encountered in Thailand.

While I would never question the honesty of Father Marcotte, or any other priest or their mothers, I don’t think it is out of line to question the accuracy of what he thinks he might have seen.

Things are incredibly busy right now, but I promise I’ll sit down soon when I have the time to write a longer letter. In the meantime, please do your best not to worry about me, because I really am fine and have every intention of remaining so.

Meantime, meantime, here is something you can use, as requested. I’m enclosing another elephant picture. I’m taking as many of those as I can. Because I discovered something about myself here, and that is how much I absolutely love elephants. I never had any idea. That has to be a

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