title: The boys in the barracks: Observations on American military life
author:  Larry H Ingraham 
description: In The Boys in the Barracks Larry Ingraham, psychologist and soldier, takes the reader inside the enlisted mens world to hear, in their own words, what they think of Army life, their leaders, and each other  both on and off duty. Ingraham weaves the findings of the landmark Fort Marshall study into a fascinating account of a universe in miniature, complete with official and tacit rules, in-groups and outsiders, and a remarkable range of leisure activities. The soldiers life after hours is Ingrahams chief interest, and he sheds new light on a shadow world of drug use, drinking, thrill-seeking, and affiliations with an impact seldom in the literature of social science.
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  FROM A BUICK 8
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  By Stephen King
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  published by
  
  Hodder & Stoughton
  
  Copyright © 2002 by Stephen King  
  
  Hardcover edition ISBN 0 340 77069 4  
  
    
    
    
  
  This is for Surendra and Geeta Patel
  
    
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  Curt Wilcox's boy came around the barracks a lot the year after his father
  died, I mean a lot, but nobody ever told him get out the way or asked him what
  in hail he was doing there again. We understood what he was doing: trying to
  hold on to the memory of his father. Cops know a lot about the psychology of
  grief; most of us know more about it than we want to.
  
  That was Ned Wilcox's senior year at Statler High. He must have quit off the
  football team; when it came time for choosing, he picked D Troop instead. Hard
  to imagine a kid doing that, choosing unpaid choring over all those Friday
  night games and Saturday night parties, but that's what he did. I don't think
  any of us talked to him about that choice, but we respected