TY - JOUR
AU1 - Peynado, Brenda
AB -  Joshua Leon felt his body tense in his uniform as the plane jangled to the drop point, and the rest of his unit held onto their seats. The flurry of the aircraft carrier was behind them, and now they were concentrating for the mission, the blue waters of the Caribbean turning over below them. There were a few of them so hopped on drugs right before they left that they thought they were being sent to Vietnam, not the Dominican Republic, even though the United States wasn’t sending that many people to Vietnam yet. Joshua Leon did not bother correcting them. They were jumping onto an island that looked too much like their own. They’d be protecting American citizens, they’d been told. It was only to evacuate Americans while the countercoup tried to reinstate the democratically elected president, Juan Bosch. But there were strange whisperings around base. The Americans were on the side of the military junta, not the president, who was soft on commies, and they were told to be on the ready. Joshua knew what he couldn’t know yet, that they were going to war. He was one of those people who could always see what 
TI - The Shadow
JF - Prairie Schooner
DA - 2017-08-09
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/university-of-nebraska-press/the-shadow-NyneTu37t8
SP - 170
EP - 175
VL - 91
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -