as he led his 300 Spartan soldiers to war against an invading Persian army. "I remember every day somebody was getting taken to the hospital," Butler said. "You'd be doing a fight, you turn around ...

We hear, for instance, of the Per sian war; of Herat, Candahar, Bushire, and DOST MOHAMMED--and we get a vague im pression of places heard of in school-days as somewhere in Afghanistan or Persia ...