| For three nights in a row, a dozen of his men lay in ambush near where the source said the men would pass. |
| Johnson was now the ranking officer and the responsibility was his to make sure the men made it home safely. |
| There are no gutsy square-jawed heroes and no military men staring into the middle distance thinking on the seriousness of war. |
| The three men always fell asleep to the sound of horses whickering from the nearby corral and the cattle lowing on the plains. |
| Apparently, back in Iowa, or Kansas, or wherever, that is just the way young men are brought up. |
| The revulsion we still feel when women rather than men commit murders became revulsion squared. |
