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Drop and let violin and bow hang limply for a while but continued to look at the music as if still playing but then she suddenly pulled herself together lay the instrument on her mother's lap who still sat laboriously. cheap nexium When Nancy realized that her husband actually was on his way to Tokyo she looked beseechingly at Admiral Tarrant and pleaded “Who’s this Mike Forney he thinks more of than his own children?” Her eyes filled with tears and she fumbled for a handkerchief. The admiral studied her closely and asked “If you were freezing to death in the sea and a man brought his helicopter right over your head and rescued you wouldn’t you help that man if he got into trouble?” Nancy stopped crying and asked “Did Harry crash at sea?” “Yes. ” She looked down at her white knuckles and unclasped her hands. Very quietly she said “You know your husband’s at war. You know he’s brave. But somehow you can’t believe that he’ll fall into the sea. ” Her voice trembled. When she regained control Admiral Tarrant asked “Has Harry told you about the bridges? At Toko-ri?” “No. He never talks about the war. ” “You must ask him about those bridges. ” Weakly she asked “Is he involved with the bridges?” “Yes. When we go back to sea your husband must bomb those bridges. ” In a whisper she asked “Why do you tell me this?” He replied “In 1942 I had a daughter as sweet as you. She was my daughter-in-law really. Then my son was killed at Midway trying to torpedo a Jap carrier. She never recovered. For a while she tried to make love with every man in uniform. Thought he might die one day. Then she grew to loathe herself and attempted suicide. What she’s doing now or where she is I don’t know but once she was my daughter. ” Nancy Brubaker could hardly force herself to speak but in an ashen voice she asked “You think that . . . well if things went wrong at the bridges . . . I’d be like. . . . ” “Perhaps. If we refuse to acknowledge what we’re involved in terrible consequences sometimes follow. ” A strange man was telling her that war meant the death of people and that if she were not prepared her courage might fall apart and instinctively she knew this to be true. “I understand what you mean ” she said hoarsely. “Let’s get your little girls and we’ll have dinner ” Tarrant said. But Nancy was too agitated to see her daughters just then. She pointed to the end of the bar where.