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...once beset by self-doubts. The only child of a very poor Jewish family in Chelsea, Mass., he ran away at 17 from a mother who spoiled him and a father who was forceful but "kinda scary." He became, successively, a dishwasher, carnival worker, Army drill sergeant, and newspaper advertising manager and publisher. Then, one arm went dead. There was nothing physically wrong with it, as Mike learned from his doctors. "I was afraid I couldn't stand the pressure, and I didn't want to look like a bum, so I just got myself sick with...
...used to curl up in front of the TV with our dog to watch Lassie save Timmy from forest fires, Mack trucks, and child molesters. The feats of Rin Tin Tin and Rusty are still fresh in our minds. And what of those special words at the end of Sergeant Preston? "Well, King, this case is closed...
February 1953: Jean-Bedel Bokassa, a sergeant in the French army in Indochina, bids a reluctant goodbye to his two-month-old daughter Martine and her Vietnamese mother, Nguyen Thi Hue and goes home to Central Africa...
Often, racial tensions will set off a fragging. In Nha Trang last week. 4th Infantry Division Private Willie Clayborne Jr. went on trial for the murder of a white sergeant. For some time Clayborne had felt "hassled" by whites in general. Last September he grabbed his M16, put it on automatic and gunned down the sergeant and two other soldiers in three quick bursts. As he fired, he repeatedly screamed "Lifer!"-a derisive term for a career soldier...
...long ago, a white sergeant caught a black Marine dozing on perimeter guard duty at Danang. The sergeant grabbed the sleeping grunt by the throat and told him: "If I were a V.C., you would be dead." That night the Marine lobbed a grenade into the sergeant's hootch, killing him and sending two other NCOs to hospitals in Japan...