In "Ambush," which line signals the beginning of the narrative within the frame story? When she was nine, my daughter Kathleen asked if I had ever killed anyone.
O "You keep writing these war stories," she said, "so I guess you must've killed somebody."
O It was a difficult moment, but I did what seemed right, which was to say, "Of course not," and then to take her onto
my lap and hold her for a while.
O He was a short, slender young man of about twenty.