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"Foote, gimme your hand!" We were both a little tipsy at the company party and he had fallen into a hedge. He had just paid me a very high compliment. He told me that he wished that we could know each other just as two men, and not as army private and company commander. This may well have been the time that I realized that I did not want to be a physicist or a mathematician... Long story short: Hollis was honorably discharged as Sergeant Foote, having been promoted three times and awarded Battalion Soldier of the Month twice. I often wonder if Hollis might not have ended up in the stockade possibly hamstrung for life with a federal conviction on his record if I hadn't listened, sympathized, coaxed, encouraged and most importantly, coached him... Vietnamese Lieutenant General Ming awarded me their Medal of Honor First Class. Unlike the US Medal of Honor, the Vietnamese variety is not for heroics but for accomplishment. I had analyzed a complex logistical problem, devised a simple..