Chapter 13Aswe walked, Astrid did her best to keep morale high. She sang moresongs. She, Geneva and Carli did a stirring, if slightly off-keyversion, of the ‘Boogie-WoogieBugler from Company B’.She told me it was a song from World War II, made famous by a groupcalled the Andrews Sisters. I took her word for it. But by theafternoon, the Raiders had become dispirited and even Astrid hadclammed up. I didn’t blame them. It’s difficult to keep smilingwhen you’re marching to nowhere. The grasping at straws tacticwasn’t working out.
I looked straight ahead as we steppeddown the road. Most of the other Raiders did, too. But Cricketdidn’t. She wandered over to the side of the path.
“Major, over here!”
With the rest of the squad I ran towardher. She pointed toward an area on the edge of the cornf
