Trautman returned from where he had been speaking with the shadowed forms of National Guardsmen down the road. He took one look at Teasle and told him, “You ought to be in bed.” “Not until this is over.” “Well, that’s likely going to take a while longer than you expect. This isn’t Korea and the Chosin Reservoir all over again. A mass-troop tactic would be fine, provided you had two groups against each other: if one flank got confused, your enemy would be so large that you could see it coming in time to reinforce that flank. But you can’t do that here, not against one man, especially him. The
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