I carried on with those this morning.With my reading seven screens now, I could have read enough of Calc 252 to enable me to take its exam. Counting f...om when I'd first started my college studies, it'd taken me four weeks to finish Algebra and Calc 251. That meant four weeks per course per screen. I'd improved that speed in several ways since the beginning, plus sleeping 1.5 hours less per morning would help too, so I figured I could sustain a rate of about three weeks per course per screen.. Why did you do that, by the way?”“Pete, think about it: Peace Studies in the War College? Does that sound like an oxymoron to you? The job of military officers is to prepare to win a war. It’s the job of the State Department and others to try to keep the peace. We’re the backup if they fail. Are we supposed to second-guess the civilian control of the military? Are we supposed to have our own foreign policy like some of the South American military leaders?” She smiled and concluded, “Does that. Normally, he needs less than a second to act upon any of her awakening cravings. This time, he doesn’t only leave her hanging, but actually wraps some of his tentacles around her limbs and keeps her from helping herself.For a brief moment, she is furious.As soon, as the tears are welling up in her eyes and the trembling of her lips in despair start, the squirming inside her specially created womb begins. It feels like she’d imagine a can full of worms to feel. The activity inside of her womb. Bad news for all, but especially for the unlucky patients on the wrong end of triage. It was an ever present reality of medical combat duty, the elephant in the room, but it was also a sign that things weren’t going all that well. It was bad enough to have to sort out and prioritize some patients over others on the basis of their chances, but far worse to have to do so in a hectic, frantic manner. Mistakes were sure to happen, even more than usual, of course.At least we didn’t get sent to.