I've been helping with the care of my 92 year-old friend who was released from the hospital a few days ago after she fell and cracked her skull. I usually bake bread or make some cookies for her every week and, until a few months ago, I would ride to the grocery store with her. She'd caught pneumonia and cannot drive again until she recovers. Her fisherman son is now staying home, taking full-time care of her. The whole neighborhood loves her and is helping, all of us taking precautions because of COVID-19.
Anyway, I was just wondering about what else I could do to help her besides the normal things and remembered she's got a huge pile of correspondence and bills and so forth, and her son has asked her to sort and file them.
I'm going to volunteer to do the sorting and filing, just the same as I did for you after your graduation from Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth! Remember?
At that time I had an excellent photographic memory, so while I was readying your papers for your return to Bahrain, of course I read many of them. I was not surprised that the teaching staff used prior military campaigns both big and small. It was the fictional military operations such as carrying out coups and countercoups which interested me the most.
It won't be nearly as much fun sorting an old lady's stack of papers, but while I do, I will be re-thinking a certain fictional terrorist operation you carried out in 1981 and how the U.S. military helped it along. Most people don't know there were two 1981 coup attempts.
