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- From: trumpins@alexia.lis.uiuc.edu (Barbara Trumpinski)
- Subject: Re: Coffee's Toast
- References: <1992Dec30.011404.12737@eskimo.com>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 06:05:01 GMT
- Keywords: A Toast
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- >Jammer orders a mocha, and walks to the line.
- >He says
- >"People, I give you Coffee's Toast.
- >I wrote it 17 years ago, when we toasted Sgt. Coffee, ourselves, and
- >those like us with 100 proof Wild Turkey, before heading down range.
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- >It is now 1700 and dark on December 31, 1992 in the Republic of Korea.
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- >First Sergeant, call the Roll!
- >Sergeant Coffee, overdue from patrol.
- >Dance of shadows,
- >Dance of fears.
- >Dance of battle,
- >Winter of Tears."
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- >Jammer drinks, and throws his mug into the fire.
- >>CRASH<
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- kitten silently lifts her glass to jammer and to sgt. coffee...
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- ...and adds her own (maybe inappropriate) toast...
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- "Under the wide and starry sky
- Dig the grave and let me lie
- Glad did I live and gladly die
- And I laid me down with a will!
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- This be the verse you grave for me:
- 'Here he lies where he longed to be,
- Home is the sailor, home from the sea,
- And the hunter home from the hill.'
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- i toast all those who are overdue from patrol and all who wait for them."
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- <crash!>
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- "my life's a soap opera, isn't yours?" {=.=}
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