SOLDIERS GET RELIGION

In the remaining weeks we did lots of practice with all kinds of weapons. We never got enough sleep, The only time we got off was for church. A lot of us got religion real fast. It was a place we could sleep.

I learned to sleep in a lot of unusual places. I could sleep at attention with my eyes open. This came in handy later in life, when my mother-in-law came to visit.

I could sleep in formation. I could sleep in the chow line and many's the time I did. There was a chin up bar outside the mess hall. We had to chin our selves on this before we could get in line. Try as I did, I could never do it. Two guys would lift me up so I could reach the bars and then if they didn't push me up, I'd just dangle there for awhile till I let go. The drill sergeants thought I really did it.