M16 rifle as an expert, the highest
category, with one of the highest scores
in my entire platoon.
Papaw was gruff to the point of
absurdity. To every suggestion or
behavior he didn’t like, Papaw had one
reply: “Bullshit.” That was everyone’s
cue to shut the hell up. His hobby was
cars: He loved buying, trading, and
fixing them. One day not long after
Papaw quit drinking, Uncle Jimmy came
home to find him fixing an old
automobile on the street. “He was
cussing up a storm. ‘These goddamned
Japanese cars, cheap pieces of shit.
What a stupid motherfucker who made
this part.’ I just listened to him, not
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(Rick Simeone)
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