Close Order Drill
We were kids, as they say, and mostly away from home for the first time. They say that too. We were from all over the country, at least east of the Mississippi, and we looked like it. We were city kids and country kids and suburban kids and small town kids. Hothouse grown only children and kids from families of a dozen. Whites, blacks, Hispanics, maybe an Asian or two (no Arabs that I recall) and lots of mutts: like we all are really, if you take it back far enough. The one thing we all had in common was that we were all males and we were all now in the United States Army. Like it or not. MORE...
