Archive for December, 2006
Airman Gates asked me if I wanted to grab a six-pack of something and head down to the Meeman Shelby State Park. Any chance to get off of base was like winning the lottery. Only a hand few of soldiers had a car and I was lucky enough to have befriended one of them.
Millington, Tennessee [...]
Quite early this morning – 3 am-ish – while writing a story about some wannabe pirates, something caught my attention outside. I went to my bedroom window - a window that has a clear view of the entire block, three stories above the street. A shady character is slowly pacing the sidewalk and looking into car windows. (I have [...]
It was supposed to be a mundane task. I was to wrap two boxes, put labels on them and deliver them to the locations addressed. One was going to the Public Affairs office, specifically, CNN. They had requested some directives and memos, nothing of any importance really. The other box was going to Army Intelligence, [...]
Of the many days I spent working in the Pentagon, one thing has always bothered me to no end -Why the hell do people tour that building? Tourists by the dozens draped in overpriced gifts purchased from the Pentagon gift shop stomp through drab corridors to look at useless artifacts from the 50’s and 60’s. They [...]
