General Petraus
A dirt bomb smacks the side of the tree I’m standing next to. “Pa-Ching: Ha! Got cha” “No way- you missed” “Uh-uh- I gotcha”
Peaches dives behind a tree, cocks his Marx 22 caliber, and takes aim and fires. “Pa-chew”. We called him Peaches because we couldn’t quite pronounce his name. It always sounded like “Peaches”
Some 50 years later, my older brother pointed out that Peaches is now General Petraus, commander of US Middle East forces. He’s my age. We grew up in the same town. When our neighborhood would play guns (toy ones) our neighborhood fought his. He was a cool kid. No one ever wins in war, so we could always fight next Saturday.
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Did he show any talent for military strategy and tactics back then?
ReplyDeleteHe did miss though, I swear.
ReplyDeleteDidn't really notice any strategies when we were little kids though. It was mostly a lot of "Pa-Chews" back and forth.