In the ongoing battle to get the kids to school on time, I have enlisted a special forces canine unit. This soldier was an easy recruit. She is more wired for mornings than a bugle playing reveille.

It woke them up and put them to bed. In between, it called them to assembly, to morning drills and to the mess hall. Years ago, the toot-toot-toot-a-toot of the bugle was as familiar on military bases ...