Kay Merkel Boruff
Air America Widow
kaymerkelboruff.com
Z.O.S. is the story of Sex Blood Money and the CIA in Southeast Asia. Kay Merkel Boruff tells the story from her perspective of wife and widow of an Air America pilot killed during covert operations in Laos. She takes the reader there as only one who has been there can. You experience the highs, understand the efforts to escape the constant fear of the dangerous reality these American heroes face daily, feel the anguish of her loss and the isolation of the "zone of silence" she is required to live in for the rest of her life.
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Kay Merkel Boruff , as a teacher at The Hockaday School
1973--2010, studied with Naomi Shihab Nye, Li-Young Lee,
Tim O'Brien, Madeleine L'Engle, and Robert Olen Butler. She unveiled the Air America Memorial at UTD with CIA Director William Colby. Armed with the philosophy carpe diem, she attended Burning Man and climbed Wayna Picchu, chasing another adventure in her "zone of silence."
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ZonE OF
sILENCE
Screenplay
kay Merkel Boruff
MAINe MEDIA
wayne booth
Portland maine
13-19 october2019
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