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Submitted to Contest #199
At the beginning of WWII, our war, I was a young man just out of the California Central Valley, a naive country boy certain of myself. I had just graduated from Officer’s Training School, but did not know where I would be posted. Some Army buddies and I were on a weekend leave out of San Diego. Wearing our spiffy new dress uniforms, we were handsome, young, muscled, tanned. We wanted a place to go, have some fun, meet some girls. (We didn’t have expectations more than maybe a kiss if we were lucky. Things were...
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