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Acknowledgements To recognize all who affected a book that took almost thirty years is an impossible task, but I'd first like to thank Tim O'Brien for being the kind of writer and human being that he is. After a chance discussion with Tim in 1998, I went home and Marred back on this story chat I'd worked on for years, and it poured Out. I want to thank Tim for reading and commenting on the manuscript [00. I also need to acknowledge Cheryl Clements of Blinn College, my friend and former student who kept challenging me over [he years not to give up on fiction; Jim Lee, Judy Alter, and Tracy Row of TCU Press for their encouragement and suggestions; Sharon Pogue, my administrative assistant at the Cemer for the Study of the Southwest, for her help; my friends and confederates in Texas literature, Dick Holland and Tom Zigal, for their suggestions; and my wife, Linda, and son, Josh, for reading the manuscript after I was finally ready to risk letting them see it and for Linda's careful editing along the way. Finally, I'd like to offer a tip of the cap, a fond salute, to all of the cadre and members of OC Company 10-70, wherever they may be. Mark Busby Wimberley, Texas ...