Front Lines

When one fell face down in front of me, I thought of John Leighton's lead West Point cadets lined up on his chest of drawers and his mother's carefully folded American flag. [...]I removed the crabgrass and thistle below and then packed the debris. Before remounting the mower, he applied a cream to the bites and took a long drink from the canteen hanging on an old canvas pistol belt across the handles of the machine. Thomas Bonner, Jr., Professor Emeritus at Xavier University of Louisiana, twice ser ved as Disting uished Visiting Professor at the United States A ir Force Academy.