October,
2022
Chapter 41 At the party in Embassy (2)
As
ambassador expected, he became a party favorite. Politicians, businessmen, and
U.S. military personnel swarmed around him. He had to tell the same story over
and over again.
The
story of hitting Egyptian air force base on the Sinai Peninsula in the dawn.
The story of infiltrating Syrian territory at low altitude over the Golan
Heights. The story of enacting the high-low-low-high tactics, to keep very high
altitude at first, then dive into the enemy’s air base, and immediately back to
high altitude after bombing the target to avoid enemy’s anti-aircraft fire. His
narrative fascinated the listeners.
When
Shy-Rock was a poor talker, he could not make participants fun. But as he
repeated the same story many times, his speech gradually became sophisticated.
Sometime he was able to afford to put in an episode which made listeners
cheerful. It was like his father who told him the same tales of valor over and
over as a soldier of War of Independence.
There
was one difference between Shy-Rock and his father. When his father told him, there
was only one listener, Shy-Rock. But now there were a large number of audiences
around Shy-Rock. Some of them might have already heard him. Such people quietly
left the party circle when Shy-Rock began to tell the same story. It was a part
of the etiquette at a party not to say something like, "Are you talking
about the same story as before?" Guests who had never heard his story
formed a circle around him and listened enthusiastically what he was going to
say.
They
referred to that story on another day in another party. The story was spread
the image of mighty Israel against the Arabs. For the Yankees, who were
Islamophobia, the story was like a thrilling western movie in which cavalry
repels Native American.
Many
Jews in the United States offered donations after hearing his story. The
ambassador's aim was spot on.
(cont’d)
Areha
Kazuya
(From
an ordinary citizen in the cloud)
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