pynchon & hemingway

[JBFRAME at aol.com]

In a message dated 06/03/2000 2:01:33 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
jsuete at postmaster.co.uk writes:

<< The ambulance driver is a soldier, he's not driving ambulances about in 
Gertrude Stein's neighborhood.  >>
"Ambulance drivers" are classified as non-combatants under the Geneva 
Convention, but are part of the military organization and are subject to 
military rules and are subject to all the hazards of people who bear weapons. 
 Believe me, the army does not let the medical personnel forget for one 
moment that they are "soldiers."

jbf