D E Larsen DVM
“Company D, Private Drake speaking. Can I help you?” Bill answered the phone on a snowy Christmas Eve in 1965.
He and I were pulling CQ (charge of quarters) duty for Company D, a duty company for troops waiting for school at Fort Devens, Mass.
We were a couple of lucky ones: permanent CQs. We were given private squad rooms in the old World War II barracks that housed an overload…