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War Story #5. O’ Dark Thirty.
I feel like I’m in a “That’s not a Buick” commercial with respect to the movie “Zero Dark Thirty.” During my 28 years in the Army, I never heard it said that way—it was always “O’ Dark Thirty.” Of course these terms are a military way of saying “in the middle of the night” or “in the wee hours of the morning.”
As a fan of Miss Thistlebottom, Zero Dark Thirty is something up with which I’m not inclined to put.
I wonder why we have seen no discussion of this. Am I the only one out of step here? It seems that no less than a time-honored military tradition is at stake. It is said that it’s not who wins a war but who gets to tell the tale who prevails. It’s like the lady who has a great web site called Oxford People, but spells “Healey” as “Healy.” What will people think who have not visited the family plot in Trinity Cemetery?
Perhaps the special-forces crowd says Zero Dark Thirty as an elitist way of looking at things. After all an English major would say they are correct. The first character in a military morning time hack is really a zero. But then again, who is more apt to be an English major—a grunt or a Hollywood script writer? In the tradition of “something o’clock” the grunts of my acquaintance say, for example, O’ four-hundred.
That’s what I told him!
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