Title: Drinking Beer Telling Stories
Author: Walt Lamberg
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It’s Friday evening in 1970. Sergeants E-5 William Hirschfield, Ted Swift and Dell Thomas, along with Corporal E-4 Harold Mendelsohn, are doing what they usually do on a Friday evening. They get away from Fort Holabird, Maryland, where they are stationed, they drink beer and they talk. The talk is almost always about their experiences in the Army. This night they have gone to do their drinking in Fells Point, an interesting neighborhood in Baltimore.

Sitting in a pub, Thomas suggests…