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...aren't the Americans fighting with us?" a twenty-year-old asked, sitting on the edge of the green American army cot...
...there was no need to project a crisis atmosphere; Washington's concern was real. Rogers decided to spend the night on a cot in his office. Meeting followed meeting as news of the Syrian assault came in. At one point Nixon told Kissinger: "Let's you and me war-game this&#quot; and they worked the plans over to see, as Nixon put it, "where the weak points might...
...Cot's Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut...
...interrogation-filled days later, Barrymaine was led to a 12-ft. by 8-ft. cell furnished only with a wooden cot and a non-flush toilet. His third night he was awakened by a woman's terrified, heart-rending scream. After a couple of weeks he realized that it came from a tape recorder, placed next to the cells of new arrivals to initiate them...
...scene shows Colonel Travis ("I shall never surrender or retreat... VICTORY OR DEATH.") drawing his famous line on the ground which his men were supposed to walk across if they were going to stay and fight. The wounded Jim Bowie is directing two aides to carry him and his cot over the line. Davy Crockett is there. All 187 defenders were killed in the next day's battle, but they brought down over 1600 of the Mexican soldiers...