A+Soldier's+Heart

"'I won't be getting into any trouble, Ma,' he said, wrapping some bread and cold potatoes and half a roast chicken in some tow cotton. 'Plus they'll be paying me. I hear they give eleven dollars a month."' Chapter 1, p. 4

"Well here it is - my chance to be a man. A boy wouldn't go off to earn eleven dollars a month and wear a uniform. Only a man. So I'm going to be a man and do what a man can do." Chapter 1, p. 5