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Date	Action	2024 First Pages Prize	Outcome
04/10/24	Application	Apply by sending the first 1250+ words of the Frog-In-The-Well Common Preface: In 1980, I came to the United States and discovered paradise. I was born in the 1960s, in Saigon (the capital of South Vietnam), in the middle of the war. The Americans called this war the Vietnam War. The victorious North Vietnamese called it the American war. The South Vietnamese, before losing the war, called it the civil war or the anti-communist war. After losing the war, we called it whatever the North Vietnamese wanted us to call -- losers do not choose. 1975 was the year the South Vietnamese lost the war. The next four years were the worst years of my life, and looking back, some of the best years. Just by going through the motions, I got a free education on socialism and communism. The arrangement was very simple. Whatever you had, physically and emotionally, even your thoughts, belonged to you but also to society. Whatever belonged to society would be managed by the state - this was socialism. And whatever the state managed would be led by the party - this was communism. But if you concluded that whatever you had ended up belonging to the party, and you had nothing, they put you into a re-education camp. If I were to spend the rest of my life reading books on socialism and communism, I would not gain better knowledge than from those four years.
05/13/24	Outcome	First Pages Prize 2024 First Round Reviews Completed Thank you for entering the FIRST PAGES PRIZE! Our diligent readers have completed reviewing your submission, A Frog-In-The-Well Solution - The Russo-Ukrainian Conflict. Unfortunately, it was not selected to move forward to our second round.