Monday, April 27, 2009
Back to the Latrine
A few days ago, I wrote about how happy my Battle Buddy is that he found the luxury latrine 1/4-mile from our tent. Yesterday before we left of three days of training I decided to use the indoor plumbing. I have been slowing reading an old high school edition of Les Trois Mousquetaires in French. So when I went to the facility I was an ethnically Jewish American guy in a latrine maintained by a local Arab contractor reading a French book.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires! Je suis Porthos, tu es Athos, et Bob est Aramis, si je me rappelle correctement.
ReplyDeleteC'est tres triste ici sans notre troisième mousquetaire. Un pour tous, tous pour un!