Kenneth figured the army would draft him. Tanesha was only three months old when he got called. The Second World War called his grandfather and Korea his father, so he suspected Vietnam would call him. That Tuesday morning, his parents took him to the bus station, and he felt scared all the way to his bones. They seemed to rattle like a Halloween skeleton hanging in the wind on someone"s porch. He was going to basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Leaving his work and his boss Billy made him sad. They had become close, and Billy assured Kenneth his job would always be there.
Once arriving at Fort Sill, the biggest black man Kenneth had ever seen waited for the bus to unload. This man was a Drill Sergeant named Jimmy Riggs. Riggs called the blacks n*****s more than the white people did. Y
