在1970年3月21日，我收到一封来自李.威廉姆斯的信，上面说他与阿肯色州义务兵役机构的一把手拉夫提.霍金斯上校谈过了，据他所说，我们都会被征召的。

On March 21, 1970, I got a letter from Lee Williams saying that he had talked to Colonel Lefty Hawkins, the head of the Arkansas Selective Service System, who told him we would all be called.

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这种情绪让人回想起该市最著名的史学家拉夫卡迪奥•赫恩（Lafcadio Hearn）1870年写给一位在辛辛那提的友人的信，他在信中这样写到：“现在这里的情况可不好，整个城市都成为一片废墟。

The mood recalls a letter written in 1870 by the city’s most famous chronicler, Lafcadio Hearn, to a friend in Cincinnati: “Times are not good here.

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