military

• We had flannelette sheets, like children’s, and army issue blankets, the old ones that still said US
• The football field which was enclosed now by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire
• Like the flag of an unknown country, seen for an instant above, it could mean attack, it could mean parley.
• a bugle, a call to arms, like a wall falling
• I felt I was an intruder in a territory that ought to be hers