View Pit Stop page for race #2194 by combsto — Ghost race
View profile for Tom (combsto)
Official speed | 85.26 wpm (73.05 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | December 9, 2020 8:42:35pm UTC |
Race Finish | December 9, 2020 8:43:48pm UTC |
Outcome | Win (1 of 3) |
Opponents |
2. dabzd (79.15 wpm) 3. sector7 (77.56 wpm) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 142.10 |
Text | #4350687 (Length: 519 characters) I eagerly asked Tom how the medicines had worked. He told me he hadn't taken any of the pills. Trying to conceal my irritation, I asked him why. "I realized that if I take the pills and the nightmares go away," he replied, "I will have abandoned my friends, and their deaths will have been in vain. I need to be a living memorial to my friends who died in Vietnam." I was stunned: Tom's loyalty to the dead was keeping him from living his own life, just as his father's devotion to his friends had kept him from living. |