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They can't remember every last little lie they've told.
Anent Cambodia, I remember a story from Randy Shilts' book "Conduct Unbecoming" about gays in the military. One of the men he interviewed was on a boat that went with a flotilla into Cambodia. The man was taking a shower on deck, soaped up from head to toe. As the flotilla formed up, his boat was at the rear, and the captain realized as did the man in the shower, that they would be the last Americans out of Cambodia.
The captained sauntered back to be the "last man" out of Cambodia, but didn't count on the guy in the shower. He slipped back as far in the shower as he could, and stuck his leg out off the back of the boat. Our military's last man out of Cambodia was a soapy fairy, hanging off the back of a little packet boat. Makes me grin just remembering Shilts' wonderful prose. Read "Conduct Unbecoming" if you come across a copy.
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