He stated, "After the massacre, they plundered us of everything we had, and left us literally naked... ...... Hempstead, who was among the wounded, reported how he was placed on a wagon with others to be taken down to the fleet.
"You are pioneers but you are riding on a wagon that is going forward," he said.
Bill Wilson, the stockbroker, and Dr. Bob Smith, a surgeon, met when Bill was on the wagon and Bob was going through a particularly debilitating period of drunkenness.
In "Helping," a story that appeared in this magazine, in 1987, a psychiatrist who was on the wagon for eighteen months comes home after stopping at the local bar: "With dread and bitter satisfaction, Elliot watched his wife detect the smell of whiskey".
He was on the wagon, and perhaps taking an alcohol-aversive drug, around the time of his death, while travelling to meet a girlfriend in the Maldives, early in 1977.
That might actually be on a Subaru Legacy wagon instead, but we don't find that car as enjoyable to drive.
He swore he was on the wagon.
I told them I was on the wagon.
Wes was on the wagon, he told Edna.
And she was on the wagon again.
