"left, right" [was: Cadence]

[Dave Hause]

This (http://www.americanheritage.com/content/hayfoot-strawfoot) purports
'hayfoot-strawfoot' to be in use during our Civil War.
Dave Hause, dwhause at cablemo.net
Waynesville, MO
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Subject: Re: "left, right" [was: Cadence]


When I was at the Army Language School, we saw a film in which Red Army
recruits were shown with a bundle of hay on the bottoms of their left feet
and a bundle of straw on the bottoms of their right foot, as they quite
clumsily - the bundles were bigger than the soldiers' feet, about the size
of small sheafs - tried to get the hang of marching.

It was a silent film from way back when and was by no means meant to
illustrate the training methods of the contemporary Red Army of the '50's
and '60's.

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