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...seldom the realchallenge because it's virtually guaranteed thatyou will. In the meantime, you'll have to holdfast to whatever it is you most value aboutyourself because Harvard will probably give it agood shaking up. Which, in retrospect, is notwithout benefit. After that incident with myEnglish professor, I became hell-bent on improvingmy writing. I needed, more than anything, tojustify the writer I believed I was, and the one Ihoped to become. And so, with the aid of Strunkand White's Elements of Style--a gift froma sympathetic instructor--I finally cleaned up mypunctuation...
...only briefly," says Lieut. Colonel Michael Chirio (ret.), who ran the program. "But I remember him. He was not a shrinking violet." Koernke, says Chirio, loved to lecture others "about a lot of things," especially weaponry. "He evidently knew a great deal about arms, and he just bored the hell out of everybody else. Most of the other cadets shied away from him." Freshmen were traditionally evaluated by upperclassmen. The older students he polled, says Chirio, "were all of the opinion that they didn't think he would be a reliable officer...
...being painted was, all of a sudden, the government turns into a fascist government. They're gonna come and get us. This was what he was suggesting, and I wasn't prepared to get in a discussion with him. So I brushed him off. That conversation really bugged the hell out of me. I remember thinking, This guy is way out there. He's not just eccentric anymore. It was like, Wake up, Ramon, this guy is a nut roll." Martinez never talked to Koernke again...
...March 1, 1994, Aaron's North Star adventure began -- an ordeal that resembled a desert hell and that ended one month later with the return of Aaron's emaciated corpse to his parents. Last month a Panguitch, Utah, judge ordered North Star's owners and some of its staff to stand trial later this year on charges of child abuse and operating a program in violation of state licensing standards. Lawyers for the owners contend that Aaron was uncooperative and refused to carry his backpack, thereby depriving himself of food and supplies. "While no one wants to use the word...
Gritz: That's due to Mark Koernke's crap. When I was a young flight officer, I don't know how many times I circled around water towers trying to figure out where the hell I was at 500 ft. I'm sure glad some idiot wasn't out there thinking I was the Russians and shooting...