You learn to use rifles, pistols, BARs, machine guns, mortars, hand grenades, bayonets and knives. Then you finish basic and are assigned to a unit an... the training goes on. It never lets up; this is how you kill, this is how you blow this up, this is how you tear this down. This is your enemy. Learn to hate him because he is evil personified and then kill him every chance you get."Then you find yourself in a landing craft approaching a beach. Bullets are clanging off the hull, artillery bursts. More exciting, even. Unless there’s love involved, you might as well just study some sex manual. Ever tried the Indonesian Helicopter? I’m not here to discuss mechanics. My whole theory, actually, is that the mechanics usually work out just fine. My thoughts apply to those of us who were willing first time and remain so today. Enough romantic schmaltz. But it’s true. Psychiatrist: "So maybe this is about unrequited affection."Sister: "Maybe so. We get real noisy when we're home alone.". "I pulled them behind a big rock around which the trail bent, and we waited, puffing, to see if we were being pursued. We could hear men in the damp woods calling to each other, but it was too dark to see very much. I sent the two women on ahead along the well marked path, one supporting the limping other, and waited with both muskets cocked.Patience was rewarded. In a few minutes two men crept past my hiding place, waving weapons from side to side, poking at bushes with their muzzles and. .. the forces of the IRS that is, he amended to himself. Mustn't use the words evil and IRS together. They had eyes and ears everywhere, or so he was told. That must be rather painful, he pondered, with a chuckle.Still, there were always some advantages, which those of a magical persuasion, had over ordinary mortals. His shop was never in one place long enough for the state tax collectors to get hold of him, but the feds were another matter entirely. No one in their right mind would want that.