title: Twisted Tales from VMI: Real-Life Stories From the Virginia Military Institute, Barracks, Post and Downtown
author: Mark A. Benvenuto
description: Mark Benvenuto is a member of the Virginia Military Institute Class of 1983, thinks he is as sane as a bucket of dirt, does enjoy a really good slice of pecan pie on occasion, and checked with his mom who claims when he was little she only dropped him on his head once or twice....
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  # Coming Home
  
  
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  THE young men of our American Relief Corps are beginning to come
  
  
  back from the front with stories.
  
  
  
  
  
  There was no time to pick them up during the first months — the
  
  
  whole business was too wild and grim. The horror has not decreased, but
  
  
  nerves and sight are beginning to be disciplined to it. In the earlier
  
  
  days, moreover, such fragments of experience as one got were torn from
  
  
  their setting like bits of flesh scattered by shrapnel. Now things that
  
  
  seemed disjointed are beginning to link themselves together, and the
  
  
  broken bones of history are rising from the battle-fields.
  
  
  
  
  
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