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With a compass , I drew circles on the PVC sheet ; for the outer diameter , inner opening , and at 1.25 inch as a gluing guide for the pipe . But I watched him very often up in the squash courts up on the hill . I watched him down the street – my good father , whom I respected perhaps even more than I loved him . Yesterday , I watched a father lead his two tiny children , holding his hands , out into the sight of tanks and a sniper tower and bulldozers and Jeeps because he thought his house was going to be exploded . I stood between the two – afraid to ask what they had undergone ; but sure , from the old man 's grave face , and the lad 's bright one – flushed all over with that excitement of danger so delicious to the young – that the peril had not been small . Eyes in which then , for the first time , I watched a thought grow , and grow , till out of them was shining a beauty absolutely divine . If I cared to read between the pundits ' lines , It might seem to me that OSS has completely upended their world-view . The chicadees are hopping about among the branches , pretty , cheerful , fearless little creatures ; I stood almost within reach of a couple of them , as they were gliding about the lower limbs of a sugar-maple , but they did not mind me in the least . The informal information I received is that it would require the taking of much more property than is involved in the Army Corps ' plan , the building of much larger retention basins along the way , and , again , going onto private property , literally demolishing some homes which , I think , most residents - - particularly those who may have their home stake in the way - - agree is not a particularly good thing to do . I was taught in college that white women " abandoned " black women in the struggle for suffrage , I later learned from other sources that this was n't true and was in fact surprised when I watched the play about the Delaney Sisters and learned that these two black women have voted ever since suffrage .