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PEOPLE LIKE THAT DON’T EXIST!
Some men possess bodies naturally, offering a great deal of strength. Whether it’s part of the ectomorphic system and testosterone levels, they have stout exteriors and contain thick necks, barrel chests, large forearms, and heavy thighs. In most cases, they outclass and outweigh the average male. Winnicki was such an individual,
He was a trained Special Forces Marine who had been driven senseless by a traumatic combat experience making him unfit for battle. Yet, the Army kept him in Vietnam. He held a minor clerical position inside the basement of a warehouse storing thousands of documents. They were copies of all the General Orders keeping the administration of II and III Corps.
Massive amounts of papers slid down the mail chute for sorting to the weakly lit dungeon of file cabinets and loosely bound stacks rising to the ceiling. It flowed into the netherworld occupied by the Master of Files, Cpl. Winnicki. It was an absolute fact that Winnick did nothing to organize. Yet the paper kept falling so that it became hopeless to walk from one end of the building to another past the jungle of documents impeding the way.
Of course, it was impossible to understand the Army’s logic in giving the job of filing all those documents in a dimly lit forest of paper to a crazy person. Still, there was no sense in attributing malice to the level of…