In a message dated 12/18/2003 4:00:03 AM Eastern Standard
Time,
owner-rara-avis@icomm.ca writes:
> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 10:10:33 -0600
> From: "Bill Crider" <
bcrider@houston.rr.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Chandler in the
army
>
> Speaking of poor eyesight, weren't both Hemingway
and e. e. cummings
> rejected for service because of their eyesight? They
both
> volunteered for
> the ambulance corps.
>
> Bill Crider
Unfortunately the Army wasn't all that concerned with poor
eyesight when I came along in the late 1960s. Mine is bad and
they took people a lot worse than me. In my basic training
company there was a guy who kept telling people he was blind
in one eye but all the way through induction and then the
first physical, he was told "Yeah, yeah, you bet. Keep the
line moving." Finally some sergeant believed him and he was
taken away and I suppose released.
For some reason this this talk of eyesight reminds me of
Ludlow Porch, a writer and radio guy I used to know in
Atlanta, who published a book with a title something like CAN
I DO IT JUST UNTIL I NEED GLASSES?
Wonder what happened to old Ludlow?
Richard Moore
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