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Private Carl Daniels flinched every time his wounds from the MP’s nightstick encountered any part of his holding cell. Carl pushed the pain out of his mind by critiquing his accommodations at the Da Nang stockade with the holding cells back in the States. He concluded neither one was designed for comfort. Since he neared …
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Private Carl Daniels walked down the steps from the Pan Am Boeing Jumbo 747. Regardless of the horrible smell and humidity, he felt at home. A lot of the smells he had never encountered before. The thunder of jets and helicopter’s blades cutting through the air only added to the distraction. Seeing a line of …
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After gaining the trust from the staff at the mental hospital and then escaping, Curtis finds someone to help him in getting not into the Marine Corps, but the Army. Curtis arrived back at the bar just before the end of Crystal’s shift. Thanks to the phone call to her brother, Curtis was able to …
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After working several months part-time with the groundskeeper, Curtis made an escape to join to Marine Corps. But now experiences what others have told him, he could not do. In this chapter, Curtis, with help, finds a way. It only took Curtis asking a couple of people for directions to the Marine Corps recruiting office. …
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Curtis has been such a model patient at the mental hospital; he gained privileges to work with the grounds keeper. Regardless of what he has been told, he still wants to join the Marine Corps. Born in Central California from immigrant parents, Pedro Gutierrez inherited their love for plants. Being the first in his family …
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In the previous chapter Curtis Mathis was expecting to be sentence to military service instead of jail. Instead, the judge send him to a mental hospital for a psychiatric evaluation. Across from the table of Dr. Phillip Grey, Dr. Carl White, and Dr. Patricia Ronstate sat Curtis Mathis. Behind Curtis stood two bulky men in …
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Curtis Mathis woke in his jail cell, expecting the judge to give him the option of going to prison or military service. In the mid-1960s, minor offenders would get the option of jail or military service. After breakfast, the six-foot, twenty-nine-year-old Curtis Mathis smiled as sheriff’s deputies escorted him from the jail and to the …
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Slightly off the main drag in Ontario, Oregon, is a place dedicated to the cultures that make up the Northwestern portion of the United States. Well, if truth be told, echoes the whole of the North American continent. Last week my editor and I took the hour-plus drive from Boise, Idaho, to visit the culture …
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Several years back, I received a call from an individual who gave me a lot of source material for Shuttered Reality and Educated Shutter. I had not expected to hear from him again. A few years after the publication of those books, I received a phone call from him. The dire tone and frailty in …
Read More In Shuttered Reality, one of the characters was Sgt. Psycho. Because of multiple requests, I have created his backstory. The man, Sgt. Psycho always lived outside of society’s norms with the desire to be part of something bigger than himself, like becoming a soldier, but was told he could not because of past behaviors. You …
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