Searching for Kokomo

“Off the Florida Keys, there’s a place called Kokomo,”

Roughly forever ago, I was an Army soldier stationed on the DMZ in Korea. It was freezing cold. Every step through icy mud seeped water into my combat boots. Our unit was into the second week of a month-long field exercise and like the 12,500 other soldiers in the infantry division, I stunk. Trips to the Korean bath house rotated and when it was time for my team to get…