War is hell and waiting is hell and war is waiting.

“The best stage name is already taken . . . I have to come up with something els…”

“Soon I was weeping---for the reservists who put their entire lives on hold when…”

“A military man's courtship rites may not be poetic, but then, they're not crypt…”

“It was then that I felt the full gravity of his profession. This was a real war…”