Chapter 20: Looking Up
The little girl heard a sound, like a scraping at the window. She opened her eyes and looked up. The side window of the car was in front of her, and she could see something moving outside, brushing the snow away from the glass. The movement outside the car continued, and suddenly the little girl was looking up into the most beautiful face she had ever seen. The eyes in the face stared back at her, and the mouth opened in surprise.
Bobby Halverson loved the Marines. To him it was the most natural thing in the world to endure rigorous training that strengthened mind and body to achieve a goal—in this case, to defeat an enemy that threatened his country’s way of life.
The five weeks of boot camp was the most gut-wrenching and painful experience most of the men in his
