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      • Anecdote
        04/18/08
        During the brutal winter at Valley Forge, Washington frequently made the rounds to comfort and boost the morale of his men. One day he chanced upon a certain Private John Brantley drinking stolen wine with some fellow soldiers:

        Brantley boosily invited his commander to "drink some wi

      • Army roll call
        04/14/08
        It was early morning at an Army camp and the first sergeant was calling out names for the daily work parties listed on a piece of paper:

        "Ames"
        "Here!"

        "Jenson"
        "Here!"

        "Jones"
        "Here!"
      • Swimming in German army
        04/10/08
        From the German Army Hand-Book:

        The soldier is allowed to begin swimming without a special order of his seargant if the depth of the water he is marching in is more than half a meter.

      • Dear Abby
        04/04/08
        Dear Abby,

        I have a problem. I have two brothers. One brother is a boatswain in the Navy, the other was put to death in the electric chair for a gruesome multiple murder. My mother died from insanity caused by syphilis when I was three years old. My sisters are prostitutes, and my father

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