Word: truck
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...eyeglasses, an American girl doll (Dad thinking that this was the third most expensive item going through, after his G-4 and iPod), other dolls - all these things went flying onto the desk, as the attendant stood there aghast. Caroline, the big sister, took charge. She spotted a plastic truck in her brother?s hand. She went to the woman and earnestly asked, ?Do you check trucks...
...Jack,? she ordered. ?Give me the truck.? Jack handed it over. The three of them were all a-giggle as they waited their turn at the scanner; it might as well have been C.S. Lewis?s wardrobe they were about to pass through. When Luci said, ?Come, Mary Grace!? the little one ran headlong to her mother, laughing...
When we got to an area behind the front, there were some Red Cross girls who wanted to sing for the troops and asked if anyone in the G.I. audience could play the piano. An upright piano was on the back of an Army truck that had been reconstructed to serve as a stage. I raised my hand. I'd started playing piano when I was 4, and I had been in an Army band back home in California but had not touched a piano for many weeks...
Then one day we were told to simply go out in the truck, find any group of our men and play. We headed out only to find ourselves mistakenly in the midst of the Battle of the Bulge, and unknowingly we had slipped behind enemy lines...
...managed to turn around and found our way back to an American checkpoint where a G.I. came up to my side of the truck. He had a grenade in each hand with the pins pulled. I explained to him that we were G.I.s in a band. He said, "All my buddies were just killed here by Germans in an American truck just like this, and all of them could speak perfect English just like you're speaking." He asked if we had papers, which I showed him, and then he asked, "What's the password?" The guys in the truck...