In addition to titling his autobiography appropriately, Col. Askins prefaced the book with a few lines from the poem, "The Men that Don't Fit In" by Robert Service. This was another apt introduction, since Col. Askins certainly did not fit into the modern era. He was of a type few people today have the stomach to handle.

There's a race of men that don't fit in
a breed that can't stay still.
So they break the hearts of kith and kin
and they roam the world at will.