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The way he looked at things, he was serving the men under his command, rather than the other way around. He also made it a personal policy to never let anyone in or out of the military think he had accomplished tactical feats of brilliance on the battlefield. He preferred to shift that honor and those accolades toward the enlisted and junior officers out there at the tip of the spear doing the fighting and the dying.
“When did you start dipping?” “When the wife made me quit drinking,”
“Not of my religion, Mr. Donovan, but of the movement.
the dominance of those empires has always been the power of an idea. As those great powers rose and fell, ideas remained.
Reece filled his cup and doctored it carefully with sweetener and milk, a bit disappointed at the lack of honey. “Good thing they do have women on ships now, Reece; otherwise you’d have to drink it black, like a man.”
“Wow! Kinda sounds like when Colombian forces killed Pablo Escobar,” Reece said with a conspiratorial smile.
He’d pocketed a pack of gum from a 7-Eleven as a kid, the only time he’d ever stolen anything in his life; this feeling was oddly similar.
This was the first time he would be jumping out of a perfectly good airplane.
“To those before us, to those amongst us, to those we’ll see on the other side. Lord let me not prove unworthy of my brothers.”
