On at least fifteen occasions during his first year in Vietnam, Vann saw old men, women, and children killed by air and artillery bombardments.
He looked up to see Old Man flying toward him.
Let young boys with gap-toothed smiles get a chance to see old men straining down Boylston Street yet again, to a finish line without end.
Soon he will be on set for rehearsals which involve him taking his shirt off, removing his dentures, cutting his toenails – all the things we don't really want to see old men doing.
"If we do not, one day we will wake up, look in the mirror, and see old men and women in the woods, with not enough of the younger generation taking our place to make a difference politically or economically".
"It's so common to see old men, even teachers, with much younger girls," said Patricia, 18, who had sex with her teenage boyfriend years ago but has since decided to abstain.
I've told Abed about witnessing the first Iraqi elections just after I'd lost friends in Fallujah — how it felt to see old men and housewives departing the polls with their index fingers stained by purple ink.
It's nice to see "old" men triumph.
"Sometimes in this world you have to let younger men have their time and I think seeing old men standing at the age of 78 for another four years is a mistake".
