"And I'm deeply, deeply sorry that I've joined in ragging you because you're middle-eastern."Shahia stared at him intensely, her expression not changi...g at all, though Chris could see her chest heaving. For maybe half a minute neither of them said anything.Finally, her eyes flicked downwards, and then she looked back at him, and spoke in a soft voice, "How did you find out?"Chris thought about his answer. She should know that she couldn't keep secrets like that, that it wouldn't even help her,. "Latimer this is Julie Braddock,Julie meet Latimer Ridley our subject for this evening." Latimer shookhands with Julie and jokingly pleaded "Hello Julie, I do hope that youare going to be patient with me?" Julie laughed and putting on a fauxGerman accent replied, "Zis is not goink to hurt US at all, but for youze suffering is chust beginning." All three broke into laughter withLatimer thinking that this girl would make it amusing at least.Recovering from this unexpected humorous introduction,. The nurse told me that Dr. Spencer had asked to talk to her and they’d gone to her office. I ate the most bland lunch imaginable and decided I knew what my next reading project was going to be: cooking.I’d eaten what I could stomach of the tasteless meal and took a couple of small bites of the jello before I pushed the whole thing away. They could have at least tried to get a different flavor of jello once in a while. The lime was getting old in a hurry.A short time later Patty showed up and I. The delay was to make sure that all of our people knew what they were supposed to do and were careful about spraying friendly fire a bit too generously.Our greatest concern was having one of our groups fighting another of our groups. Therefore, we wanted to attack during the day when everybody could make a visual identification of friend or foe. That also gave us time to copy some maps that were marked with each units field of operation. They were not supposed to leave that area without.