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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Volkditty" data-source="post: 584970" data-attributes="member: 5400"><p>When I joined the Army in 2002 my group got held up in reception for a week because of the huge influx of recruits.  I found a copy of Hondo lying around somewhere and got through the first few chapters before we got sent down range for basic training. I wrote a letter to my grandpa asking how the book ended because I knew he was a Westerns fan and he wrote back to fill in the plot for me. I didn't find out until after his funeral, years later, that he had rushed out to buy a copy of the book and essentially treated it like a book report assignment to tell me the rest of the story. That book has a huge sentimental place in my heart.</p></blockquote><p></p>