Chu Lai, Vietnam, 1966: My life lesson in leaping
by Gerald McCarthy
Jun 19, 2023
2 minutes
Until recently, I’d almost completely forgotten about jumping off the cliffs into the South China Sea when I was 18 – nearly six decades ago. Maybe it was the pandemic that pulled the memory back, or maybe it was my wife mentioning French philosopher Albert Camus and his notion of jumping off a cliff. (“Or should I step back from the edge, and
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