The wonderful and weird.

Once when on furlough in Saigon and knowing we were soon to see action again, and as life in war has an uncertain lease, we stayed off the booze and opted instead to feast on the finest dinner we could find, and we sure did feast royally. Interestingly, after paying for the meal among the change was a Roman coin that bore the head of the Emperor Hadrian. It was one of life’s memorable weird moments, but a few days later I lost it when digging out a rifle pit.

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