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Subject: Journal

Date: 07/22/75

Learning is everywhere I re s seem like they were full of adventure What I wouldn’t do for a little mundanity at this moment Or my mom

I wonder if I’ll be able to clai on board It’s not exactly conventional, but I haven’t given up on college and I don’t want to end up behind Note to self: figure out how to argue the e application board without getting arrested (ha ha, I aside a disabledchased down by a BeiTech dreadnought and hoping to live long enough to find a juate so I MUST NOT GET BEHIND ON MY SCHOOLING … I sound dusted)

I am just too funny, but there’s nobody here to appreciate roup leader says I mask ht The poor woist before theyfor her is that our group is about as easy to talk to as a bunch of rocks But ants to break the dam on stuff like this in public? You write it down and put it away, then back to work

Today’s counseling session was about looking behind the face we put on in public to think about what elseon I wonder if that was just a sideways atteet me to be nicer to some of the others, walk a ave us the theme, as she launched off into another round of how-does-that- holoshow that came to Kerenza They put on a play in the coht-projected puppets, and I snuck away froate the puppeteers The whole roe to sharenow mom and dad must have wanted to hide under their seats, but to be fair it was hardly the first time I’d mortified them) I remember that moment really clearly It was so important to , this roe--none of theuy with the biggest moustache I’d ever seen, which struck me as hilarious

Clearly I had missed the romance of the ht-Really-Be-Going-On though, even at the age of eight I knew itout as really happening

And romance? I knew even then it wasn’t the real deal

Today, as we practiced empathy and pretended to put ourselves into the shoes of others (without really doing it, because none of us want to ih probleht a lot about that holoshow, and the coee fleet

Like I said, back to work My group leader has no idea how oing to find out

INCEPT: 07/22/75

WITNESS IDENT: Ezra Mason (UTN-966-330ad)

RANK: Second Lieutenant

CALLSIGN: N/A

COMMANDING OFFICER: David Torrence (UTN-951-787ad)

RANK: General

CALLSIGN: Dozer

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DT: Lieutenant Mason, as your initial reaction when Echo Group was ordered to attack shuttle group Osprey?

EM: Sir?