Monthly Archive Browsing Month: December 2008

How the hell did I get HERE? We’ve all probably asked ourselves that question as we lived through the myriad twists and turns of our unpredictable lives. It was 1987. I was a Sergeant in the United States Marine Corps and had decided I’d had enough of sleeping in the mud, and the misery, loneliness,…

It was early May, 1987 and the 747 I’d hitched a ride home on from Okinawa, Japan skidded to a stop on the scorching tarmac at Washington National Airport. No longer attached to a Marine unit, I’d had to beg, plead, and threaten my way home. But I’d finally made it back. A month prior,…