<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391740" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lesson</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was 1963 or 4, summer,<br>and my father was driving our family<br>from Ft. Hood to North Carolina in our 56 Buick.<br>We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mississippi to be more dangerous than usual.<br>Dark lay hanging from the trees the way moss did,<br>and when it moaned light against the windows<br>that night, my father pulled off the road to sleep.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Noises<br>that usually woke me from rest afraid of monsters<br>kept my father awake that night, too,<br>and I lay in the quiet noticing him listen, learning<br>that he might not be able always to protect us</div><div style="margin:10px 0">from everything and the creatures besides;<br>perhaps not even from the fury suddenly loud<br>through my body about his trip from Texas<br>to settle us home before he would go away</div><div style="margin:10px 0">to a place no place in the world<br>he named Viet Nam. A boy needs a father<br>with him, I kept thinking, fixed against noise<br>from the dark.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Forrest+Hamer">Forrest Hamer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391740" data-title="Lesson de Forrest Hamer" data-description="It was 1963 or 4, summer, and my father was driving our family from Ft. Hood to North Carolina in our 56 Buick. We'd been hearing about Klan attacks, and we knew Mississippi to be more dangerous than usual. Dark lay hanging from the trees the way..."></div> </div> </div>

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