Just outside my window, hundreds of 18-year-old students are being indoctrinated into ROTC. This consists, at least on this day, of learning to march in ant formation, but unlike ants, they are shouting at the top of their lungs of their total obedience to their masters. Does this, like ant marching, shaved heads, and identical clothes, help make them ready to kill gooks upon order? As they would say, over and over, YES, STAFF SERGEANT!

UPDATE from Mike Gaddy:

Your blog prompted a recurring nightmare. That with all the "flashbacks" are the payments I must keep making for worshipping the state. Where was LRC when I was 19---and would I have listened had it been there?

UPDATE from Consuelo:

My mother was a school girl during WW2 in Columbus, Ohio. She and her classmates were made to march around the gym shouting 'Kill the Japs. Kill the Japs.'"