Word: artagnans
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...Latham, president of Nicky USA, a game distributor in Portland, Ore. "Our sales have grown from approximately $250,000 in 1990 to at least $3.5 million last year." That's far less than the $210 billion in sales of the U.S. beef industry, but the numbers are rising. D'Artagnan, another game source, has seen its sales of farmed rabbit leap almost 20% over the past few years...
...find their lost comrades. There are letters from the White House and the Pentagon, responding to his campaign last year to be allowed back on active duty, which, since he was 36, required a waiver. And there are pictures of his wife Anna and their sons D'Artagnan and 7-week-old Alexander, whose world he wants to fix. Beets thinks it's time to take the fight to America's enemies. He does not talk about his unit's imminent deployment to Kuwait as just another training exercise...
...family while Tracey is away. But she is grateful for what the Army offers to families: the health care, classes and play groups. "I want the kids to have some kind of normal life," she says. "If I changed his environment," she says of 3-year-old D'Artagnan, "he might not think Daddy is coming back." His father was away for a month last fall at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, Calif., and D'Artagnan stood at the window every night, watching...
...Marines; the other is now a police officer but was a Marine in Desert Storm. "They said Desert Storm was an exercise, right up until you turned on the TV and saw they were bombing Baghdad. I know it's his job and he has to go. But D'Artagnan doesn't understand, and he asks all the time...
...American flag sticking out of the roof of his little camouflage tent, who when he sees a gun at the toy store says, "Dad, can I get that weapon?" Even a child knows the drill, knows the words, and tonight in the living room, D'Artagnan sings them...