TY - JOUR
AB - 6 ANTHROPOLOGY AND HUMANISM QUARTERLY 10 (1) "Yes sir." "See, all you have to do is stand up to guys like that." "Yes sir." And that was that. He had his story. While his commando training was still fresh in his mind, he would describe the epic fight (which he had not ac- tually seen) with all the anatomical detail of a Homeric duel. Later, he let it go with a summary. As he grew old, and especially near the end of his life, when his neural circuits began winking out like last year's Christmas tree lights and he felt less and less control over his own world, he would tell the story several times in a day. When I was younger, I was afraid to contradict him. Later, there was no point in it. The event marked the end of that violent period. I went back to avoiding Edwin and Ronnie and settled back into tractable apathy at school. At the end or the school year, we moved to Alabama. While we Seaman's Blues were there, President Truman, a man who reminded me of my parents friends and who, like them, seemed On my way to Italy, not 
TI - A Tribute to a Fellow Texan
JO - Anthropology & Humanism
DO - 10.1525/ahu.1985.10.1.6
DA - 1985-02-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/wiley/a-tribute-to-a-fellow-texan-YJG6JkTc0y
SP - 6
EP - 6
VL - 10
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -