From Tim O'Briens Vietnam novel , "The Things They Carried" A young American is staying in cabins near the Canadian border trying to decide if he really wants to be a Draft Dodger, the old fellow who owns the cabins is a quiet man who suspects what the boy is doing but makes no comments over the days, except, "one evening, just at sunset, he pointed up at an owl circling over the violet-lighted forest to the West, "Hey O'Brien", he said, "There's Jesus"
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