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Life used to be so simple, when I enlisted we had two choices for boots, army issue or Corcoran's.

I had a nice pair of Corcoran's when I got to Korea I also had small feet size 8 which was about the size of a standard Korean's feet. One day I could not find my Corcoran's and was informed by the houseboy that he had shined them and put them back, in reality they had been stolen while in his care, he confessed to this fact then asked me "whatcha gonna do GI whatcha gonna do? I told dhim he would either replace my boots or I would divest myself of his services, I could shine boots and make a bunk and really did not need him. As I had 8 months left of my tour he stood to lose what for a Korean at that time would be a sizeable chunk of income, he paid for my boots and I never lost another pair. Corcoran's were only available in one width back then and I had small wide feet, breaking in a new pair was a real pain.