Which Reminds Me

During sixth grade at the missionary kid school in San Salvador, the two eighth graders hit upon a military scheme of things. Inspired by a chart in the encyclopedia of military rankings, they decided to organize our school along military lines. Thus, Jeff and Jody appointed themselves the generals, Susie in the 7th grade was made a colonel, and Barbara, Sammy and I were made, what was it, maybe lieutenants, the fifth graders were the captains, and on down to the first grader privates. So that kept everyone amused and entertained for a couple of days, until we all got bored with that artificial scheme of things and entirely forgot about Jeff and Jody and Susie unduly throwing their weight around. Thus, there was no reason to imagine that the Wilders would have anything intelligent to say about that.