Role Models
April, 1982
I didn't really learn to swear until Sergeant Danny Gross, my Marine Corps drill instructor, taught me. He could surely use the language. He said I was a pinheaded, no-brained, foreskin-chewing, pogey-bait maggot, lower than worm life, and if I ever got out of boot camp it would be either in a hearse or in skirts, because I certainly didn't have the makings of a Marine.Sergeant Gross taught me a lot of other things, too--things that later saved my life. He had a list of don'ts that he entitled &...
