Day Of Good Fortune

May, 1967

Day of Good FortuneThe valley has a name, and I could find it easily enough on a map of Korea, but to me it will always be Her Valley. It is a wilderness by now, and the village--Her Village--has been swallowed up by the tangled underbrush, for the armistice line that divides the country runs close by, and no one lives in the buffer zone between north and south, and no one may enter it to tend the ancient graves--or to chase down memories. She may still be alive, perhaps on the inaccessible side...