looking out the window. Then we heard the sound of glass breaking in our back yard. She began to bark ferociously. My husband got up and ran to the back door, with our retriever right by his side. He opened the door and she darted out like a Greyhound out of a racing gate, barking the whole way. He quickly turned on the light and saw someone jumping the fence, narrowly avoiding the powerful jaws of our family guardian. This person had broken our garage window and was attempting to enter when he…
basic infantry format, and this weekend was to be our first pass. That night, laying on top of my bunk burning up with fever, I didn’t want to turn myself into the sick bay. The following day I took my first weekend leave, managing to get to the Greyhound bus station and back to Kansas City even though I felt as sick as a dog. When my parents met me at the station, I could barely stand up. They took me straight to the ER. The prognosis was, thankfully, not the meningitis that was killing so…