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Neil Armstrong
Background
A Field Security colleague Lewis last saw in Tunisia eighteen months before.
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In Naples ’44
Their September 1944 reunion in Benevento — Armstrong now so wary that Lewis half-expects him to grope for his testicles at the sight of a stranger — becomes the book’s measure of how completely the south changes a man.
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September 25 1944A reunion with an old colleague who has become almost entirely assimilated into Southern Italian life prompts reflection on how deeply the region changes people.
old colleague from Tunisia, reunited after eighteen months, visibly transformed by Southern Italy
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