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...miles south of Waco. Tracy Sivacek, the 40-year-old wife of an Army Apache helicopter pilot, delivers water to Sheehan's busy outpost. Sivacek left behind her husband and disabled five-year-old son on Monday and drove nonstop from Fort Rucker, Alabama to Crawford, pausing only to sleep in a Waffle House parking lot. Her husband served one tour in Iraq and, she says, he has not been handling the adjustment back home well. Despite his reservations, she felt she had to support Sheehan's anti-war protest...
...still surprised people wonder at what is so clear to him: "I found myself there, and to see, I had to get up - and to get up, I had to show myself. So I just stood up and that was it. I was in it." Before he went to sleep that night, and in all the days of battle after it, the young private didn't think again about what had happened on May 15, 1945, in the steamy heat of New Guinea...
...little longer to get around these days, and his eyes aren't good. But his white hair still has the dashing curl of the bold young soldier, and his humor is as dry as the bush in summer. "I couldn't call for morning tea or go to sleep," he says of his decision to stand up that day. After the shooting finished, his company met up with another section nearby. "Someone, I think it was Snowy, said to me, 'Did you do that?' and I said yeah, and he said, 'Good shooting.' And that was it - what else...
Before this summer, I was a binge drinker. I would avoid coffee like the plague until the day when, say, I had two midterms on one hour of sleep. Then I would down up to 10 cups—as many as needed to stave off sleep for a few more critical hours...
...schedule became regular routine: an iced coffee with my early breakfast, and a latte around 9 a.m. The size of the latte could be adjusted to the amount of sleep I had. A healthy night’s sleep could lead to a grande. Two long nights of sleep might even let me skip the second cup. But a night out—automatic venti...