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Facebook Reveille

It's mindful of the Army when I awaken in the morning and pull Facebook up on this computer.  It seems my duty to take the accounting.  We are all under the Supreme Commander and the "Why" is his domain. A large percentage are assumed to be alright and at their duty stations.  A few may be hospitalized or in surgery.  Some are at the Dispensary or Sick Bay; the Army version of the doctors office or emergency room.  Even a few may have landed in the city jail. As I run the roster, I see the names of those who the Supreme Commander has relieved of duties and called to their final home.  I won't delete them even though they will never be present; they are in the "accounted for" bracket in my memory. There is Ponchie Deen's friend Laverne who never was picked up on my roll, she should have been. Linda Jones, the daily ray of sunshine that few knew of her painful body. Joe Osborne that I met just once and you would have thought we had grown up togethe

THE MANY FACES OF CATTLE

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                            THE MANY FACES OF CATTLE                                                  `                                     by Arlie (Trooper) Wood                                                                                            `                                                                                          30 April, 2027 Cattle is a rather vague term, generally defined as animals domesticated for man’s use.   Genesis 12 is about the earliest mention in that definition.   Today, we don’t tend to think of camels or elephants as cattle; we are more inclined to think only of the Bovine.   Even that definition covers a very wide spectrum from the bucking bulls at the rodeo to the tiny newborn calf struggling to stand for the first time.   My thoughts always included the Bison as the North American cattle; obviously not domesticated but serving mankind’s need from food to clothing to sewing supplies to fertilizers.   Maybe I wasn’t too far wrong.