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...middle of the night to a raucous celebration in which military discipline instantly fell apart. Friends and relatives swarmed onto the field to engulf the soldiers. A trooper protested a brief military formation by shouting: "The women are waiting, and the beer is cold!" No one in Hinesville slept that night...
...decades later, Miller is still on intimate terms with the war. "For years, I've slept with my left hand on my Bible and my right hand on my .45," he says. But the particular piece of tropical rain forest that Miller inhabits is a long way from the Ho Chi Minh Trail. Miller's base camp hunkers down on some hardscrabble red dirt several miles outside the village of Pahoa on the Big Island of Hawaii. In touch and smell, as well as sight, it is the closest to Vietnam that one can get within the U.S. "I will...
...motley group of 400-600 men continued to guard Lithuania's parliament. Many slept on couches or in sleeping bags during the day. Others filled sandbags...
...between 7:30 a.m. and 11, depending on his classes, and retires sometime between 1 a.m. and 2:30. He naps whenever he gets a chance, but that does not always work well. "A few weeks ago," he recalls, "I had a break between two morning classes, so I slept. But when I woke up, the morning class I had attended felt like it never happened. It seemed more like a dream." On weekends he heads for bed at 3 a.m. and doesn't get up until...
...While I slept, he would sneak into my room and hum the Cowboys' fight song. After waking me into a hypnotic trance, he would shock me if I smiled at the mention of Doug Williams, Gary Clark or the Fun Bunch. In my most horrifying humiliation, he forced me to write that article, threatening that if I didn't, he would secretly cancel my applications to medical school...