Peter Rabbit

 This is a true story.  It is a kind of “war story.’  “Basilisk’ asked me to tell you this story.  We were out wandering around the Virginia countryside in the rain.  “Harper” joined us for lunch at a country inn.  We have those. 

            In the middle of the Vietnam War, I was in an Army school for captains and majors.  It was a long course, nine months long.  There were about 100 officers in the class.  Nearly all had already served one 12 month “tour” in the war.  They were all intelligence officers but as lieutenants or captains they had served with infantry or other combat arms battalions, or in SF or so far out in the “boondocks’ that what branch one belonged to did not matter much. 

            They were all going back to the war as soon as they graduated and were not very tolerant…

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