Sometimes, however, I stood my ground and insisted that Will’s old and worn clothes and boots had no practical purpose and it was not like Lizzie co...ld wear them. His best suit, the suit he was married in, of course we kept, but most of Lizzie’s treasures were small and tangible, like photographs and Will’s hair brushes and the shaving kit that he didn’t take into the army with him. However, by the time that we had finally tidied everything up, we both agreed that the cottage no longer felt. I smiled--we were saved!!!I wasn't the only one smiling. The uniforms were so pretty, at least on some of the soldiers. A few of the men looked a little raggedy, but it might have been the bad haircuts. They were a week later than we expected, but ... those uniforms were so pretty! The God-Beloved U.S. Army had come to rescue us!We had laid out a large feast of Lorena's best to welcome the soldiers. They looked nervous though."Please," I told the leader. "Sit! Sit! We've been waiting for you.". 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 and 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. She had bright red hair, and her skin was covered with freckles, which made her very self-conscious. Her butt was nice and firm, and with her button nose she was not bad-looking.As a bachelor, I have learned to cook, so on the day they moved in I took them a dish of lasagna, salad, and bread. I could see that Jasper looked at me curiously when I told them I had prepared the food.Over the next several weeks, I would go over and visit, and they would reciprocate. I noticed that Jasper made it.