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“Your mother wears combat boots” was
one of the insults lobbed by little boys in
the mid-1950’s, when I was in second grade
or third. “Sticks and stones ...” might have been
a wounded lad’s retort. But I was more puzzled
than affronted by remarks about my mother’s feet.
She’d been a soldier, a U.S. Army sergeant. And while
“boots” may not have been exactly what she had worn,
my mom marched many a mile in government-issued
footwear in those years just prior to when I was born.
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