A Soldier’s Tale

Monday, February 10th, 2003

The Wall Street Journal posted Rudy Romero’s original e-mail in A Soldier’s Tale. They left it in its original state, ALL CAPS and riddled with spelling errors:

HOWS EVERYTHING GOING SIR. HOPE YOUR DOING FINE. WE SHOULD GET TO GETHER FOR LUNCH SOMETIME, I KNOW A PRETTY GOOD PLACE IF YOU LIKE MEXICAN.

I found a (partially) cleaned-up version at Squad-Leader.com. As for content, some things haven’t changed since the days of the Roman legions:

I would also recommend wearing the body armor during all training, I doubt if well ever fight without it again. It significantly affects everything that you do.

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