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Well, the dragonfly was a quick sketch done while my artillery unit was setting up to fire blank rounds for the 1812 Overture back in '98.
(We also fire golf balls out of the howitzer, but that was our then Cap's idea. It looked neat, admittedly.)
Alotta memory attached to that one sketch, and several after it.
I didn't have any fixative spray at the time, and had no real way to preserve any of those sketches.
But I will always remember that sketch with humor.

It was hysterical to me, right after doing the sketch, we had to roust a few stoned people from the bushes directly in front of the muzzles.
We yelled into the brush that they should come out now because they would get hurt.
This statement was answered with hushed giggles and very audible statements about how they were invisible and we couldn't hear them.

So we loaded up and extra blank round and fired.
About 12 stoners flew like the wind across the golf course that was on the other side of the brush in abject terror.
It's fear that gives men wings.
My seargent looked at me and goes, "Keller, how the heck could they think we didn't know they were there? What the heck just happened?"
I shrugged and answered my seargent that they were probably dropping acid.

Then our Captain walked by and dropped golfballs down the howitzer tubes, all while trying to look innocent.
Stunk that we lost him to S3 in a transfer with promotion.
If we could have kept that Captain, we would have.
Instead, we lost him and got a new guy who was a jerk.