Following a Meme

Copying Scooter, copying Generic Heretic:

The Venerable Book:
1. Grab the nearest book.
2. Open it to page 161.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the sentence along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find. Do what's actually next to you.

Here's mine:
"As is the case in every war, we were nearly always short-handed, and it took a lot of manpower to secure the station twenty-four hours a day."