My first day at the front

My first day at the front

I have absolutely no military training, no battle experience, never been in the front lines to confront the enemy. However, by June 1959 I had accumulated fourteen years of time sitting in classrooms.   By that date I had the greatest desire to escape from being confined as a pupil within the four walls equipped with chalkboards, rows of desks and hard seats screwed to the floor, a 26-piece long series of white-on-green signs with Aa Bb Cc Dd Ee…