Here's a snippet from the carefree happy days of the previous century, before 9/11 and the New Earnestness -- Baumholder, Germany, 1986. The daily march to the

Here's a snippet from the carefree happy days of the previous century, before 9/11 and the New Earnestness -- Baumholder, Germany, 1986. The daily march to the motor pool. Yes, I was in the Army. A little later than usual for reasons no longer remembered. Early summer, it might have been 70-F, considered a heat wave back then. A local work crew was pouring new concrete to replace some crumbling pad. They were on break drinking beer, at 1030. To those of you who do not habla, that's 10:30 AM. They did seem to work a little slowly compared to the crews I have observed since. But I've never used a stopwatch, so I could be wrong.