Carolina QuotesAnd so I began in earnest my awkward assimilation into the training environment and the peacetime Army. And after all the trials and tribulations, the blood, sweat, and tears, I'm still in the Army today, twenty-five years and untold heartaches later. Maybe I'll make it a career.
Franklin D. Miller Carolinian
Source
Afterlife, p. 201
- work
- Reflections of a Warrior (1991)
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- 1991
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- p. 201
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