时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(六)月


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Beth Collum finds the name of a family friend, John Barovetto, who was killed in Vietnam, 31 May 2010


The U.S. National Park Service and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund say six names have been added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, bringing the total number of names on the wall to 58,267.  These additions were recognized officially during Monday's annual Memorial Day Observance at the memorial wall.


A woman named Beth Collum is flipping 1 through a register to find the name of a young man she knew in the 1960s.  Here is the story, in Beth Collum's own words.


"His name is John Barovetto, and uhm, where is he? B-a-r-o-v-e-t-t-o. He's from Davis, California. ...A rugby player of my dad's," she said.  "My dad was a combat Marine 2 in Korea and WWII, and he was a rugby coach and a football coach at the University of California.  The 1960s was really not a troop-friendly kind of place, and this young man went to join the Army and he went to war.  And people, well-meaning people, would send him the Daily Californian [newspaper] and stuff like that and he'd find out about all the protests and the riots, and it was really demoralizing.  And he would write to my dad," said Collum.


"I have some of his letters that he wrote to my dad thanking my dad for . . it was sort of a combat-to-combat, different, Korea-to-Vietnam, sort of thing.  And then he came home from his first tour and before he went up home to Davis, he came to dinner and my mom fixed 3 a roast, prime rib 4 and all that kind of stuff, and it was really nice.  And he had these jewels, well he thought they were black pearls, and he told his mom when he got home, he said, "Send those pearls to Mrs. Collum and her daughter."  I was 16, no 15," she said.




People walk through the vast rows of military graves after a Memorial Day ceremony at the Marietta National Cemetery 5 in Marietta, Georgia, 31 May 2010


And anyway he went back for a second tour and he was killed.  And his mom sent this little box and it said 'John's Black Pearls.'  And when I turned 16, I had it made into a ring and we discovered it was actually a star sapphire 6 and not a black pearl.  I've used his letters to my dad to understand my own childhood because even though I'm old enough - if I was a guy, I could have been in Vietnam - but in 1968, 1969, during the Tet Offensive and all that, I was in high school.  And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh, my gosh, there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'"she recounted.


And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him, and here he's a football coach at Cal [University of California], so if we go to an athletic 7 event, there would be people painting their [protest] signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.  Which, if my dad was alive today, he'd go, 'You've got to be kidding me. Your job was not to protect the Marines.  Our job was to protect you.' I think that that is my job - to support our troops," said Collum.


 



讨厌之极的
  • I hate this flipping hotel! 我讨厌这个该死的旅馆!
  • Don't go flipping your lid. 别发火。
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
  • When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时,他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
n.肋骨,肋状物
  • He broke a rib when he fell off his horse.他从马上摔下来折断了一根肋骨。
  • He has broken a rib and the doctor has strapped it up.他断了一根肋骨,医生已包扎好了。
n.坟墓,墓地,坟场
  • He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
  • His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。
n.青玉,蓝宝石;adj.天蓝色的
  • Now let us consider crystals such as diamond or sapphire.现在让我们考虑象钻石和蓝宝石这样的晶体。
  • He left a sapphire ring to her.他留给她一枚蓝宝石戒指。
adj.擅长运动的,强健的;活跃的,体格健壮的
  • This area has been marked off for athletic practice.这块地方被划出来供体育训练之用。
  • He is an athletic star.他是一个运动明星。
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