July 16, 2024:
Our teacher, Mister B., told us, his 5th grade class, in tones of great seriousness, that our skill at chin-ups would save our lives.
The enemy, presumably the Russian one, would get us unless we were able to hump it over walls unassisted.
I assume his earnestness was meant for the boys. Not the girls. Thoughts of the girls would have been unlike him.
I became very good at chin-ups.