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Submitted to Contest #75
The flag was planted. And then BOOM the world lit up like fire and lights and the contents of happiness spilled everywhere and it was a mess. Smiles were contagious and everyone was infected with this disease of joy and pride- because it was 1969 and the Americans had reached the moon. But not me. Not me. I let the gravity that was such a force here increase the speed of the shovel as it plummeted into the soft brown earth dirt and scooped another heap of it onto the small casket. It was gleaming like a silver bullet in the July sun, and it’...
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