
Called A Soldier Before You Are One
Here we are - newly weds. Bill was in Officer's Candidate school at the time. (We were so skinny and check out his red 442 in the background!) He enlisted in the Army in 1967. He was immediately called "soldier", with a rather threatening tone of voice, but he wasn't really a soldier yet. Training had to come first. Once he enlisted, he was no longer Bill Stevens, he was Private Stevens - they owned him. It was a rude awakening when the hard, grueling, exhaustive, arduou