Jody

Jody looks as if she had seen a ghost.

Kenyan Wangari Maathai won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004 for her campaign to reforest Africa. American Jody Williams was recognized in 1997 for her work to ban landmines.

Even today in the Marine Corps or the Army, one calls a jody, not a marching chant. For the trainee, Jody is the clever civilian who brutally divorces the soldier from the civilian world by appropriating all his possessions and loved ones. Ain't no use in callin home. Jody's on your telephone. Ain't no use in lookin' back. Jody's got your Cadillac. Ain't no use in goin' home. Jody's got your girl and gone. Ain't no use in feelin' blue. Jody's got your sister too.

“What is Jody? a Jody is the guy back home with your wife or your girlfriend. That is what a Jody is,” Harris explained.

I watched the formation move away and listened to the PT leader begin to call out a "jody," an Army song to help units run in step in formation

I walked back to the dorm as my team ran by in formation singing a jody about their last day.