Word: knapsackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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O715 hours: The day is hot and humid. Lieut. Jo Duden, 29, of E Company's 2nd platoon, checks to make sure she has rations, insect repellent, water, then straps her gas mask around her waist. Her 30-lb. knapsack makes her look twice her normal size...
133O: "We're moving out!" yells the platoon commander. Duden slaps on her helmet and shoulders her knapsack. The next objective, a bivouac site, is about 1,500 meters away. Firing breaks out. Duden crouches with the M-16 on her shoulder. The platoon wades through a stream 3 ft. deep. Darnell, barreling ahead, pushes past Duden. "Don't you ever shove me again!" she shouts after...
153O: The battle is over. Duden drops her knapsack, takes off her helmet and wipes her brow. She starts digging a foxhole to make camp. "How you do really depends on what kind of woman you are," Duden says. "You have to be aggressive...
...pack my father's old Boy Scout knapsack with my belongings, I am still wearing the clothes I slept in last night in the bomb shelter. Yona walks me to the dirt road where I will catch a ride away from the border toward Haifa and my new kibbutz. Yona's forehead is deeply-lined, and there are circles under his eyes; the war has been hard on him, too. It is hard not to admire the courage of the Israelis like him, who sacrifice so much for their cause...
...would not advise living alone for anyone very young, because you've got to have something in your knapsack," Sarton said, adding that she did not live alone until she was 45, and by then she had experienced "a rather nice life from the point of view of friendships and lovers...