hippies ... for frank , jacks a puny dude who probably never played high school ball , just a screw-off if not screw-up ... not as frank saw himselfmature by reason of death , stable by reason of home ownership , working for a living , a bit adrift in his heart but a solid guy ... above average in everythingheight , looks , smarts : played two years of college baseball , couldve been a competitive swimmerbut the fucking war and the fucking draft and the fucking establishmentshit , the goddam fucking times !