Starship Troopers
“. . it would bestrange indeed if so celestial anarticle as FREEDOM should not behighly rated.Thomas PaineIt was the night after Hendrick was kicked out that I reached my lowest slump at Camp Currie. I couldn’t sleep—and you have to have been through boot camp to understand just how far down a recruit has to sink before that can happen. But I hadn’t had any real exercise all day so I wasn’t physically tired, and my shoulder still hurt even though I had been marked “duty,” and I had that letter f...rom my mother preying on my mind, and every time I closed my eyes I would hear that crack! and see Ted slump against the whipping post.I wasn’t fretted about losing my boot chevrons. That no longer mattered at all because I was ready to resign, determined to. If it hadn’t been the middle of the night and no pen and paper handy, I would have done so right then.Ted had made a bad mistake, one that lasted all of half a second. And it really had been just a mistake, too, because, while he hated the outfit (who liked it?), he had been trying to sweat it out and win his franchise; he meant to go into politics—he talked a lot about how, when he got his citizenship, “There will be some changes made—you wait and see.”Well, he would never be in public office now; he had taken his finger off his number for a single instant and he was through.If it could happen to him, it could happen to me.MoreLess
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