
The Shot Clinic
The summer I was eight years old my family moved from North Carolina to the Japanese island of Okinawa where my Army dad was stationed. We would live there for three years. But before we could make the trip across the Pacific Ocean, we had to get a lot of immunizations, many of them for diseases not common in the U.S. My mother had to take me, my sister and my brother to what we called the shot clinic at Fort Bragg, NC. It was located in a Quonset hut – a rounded metal struct