IV I haven't flown in years. Still, tonight, I don't want to talk about what it's like to get into trouble in the air, bad trouble, with nothing to hold you for a long way down. Last week, living their war-alert orders, Russian fighters lit three on a match and fused human horrors in heat and in history and tonight, it seems so clear, vivid. Sand Creek, The Trail Where They Cried, Wounded Knee or 39,000 feet, people can be burned and murdered in villages on Earth or villages and pathways aloft in the sky. Copyright 1995 Kaleidoscope .
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