"Come with me please." Then she led me to a treatment room. The room was white of course with a table where I guess I was supposed to sit. But I chose...to sit on the doctor's stool. Hell I was paying, I would sit where ever I wanted. At least until someone told different.Well technically the assistant had said sit on the examining table. I had just ignored her, Yes I was acting out, but I had enough of doctors, and even lesser employees telling me what to do. I hated even more that they were. I grabbed my bags as the soldier pointed towards a hanger for me. When I walked in I set the bags down and came to attention. I hesitated before glancing out and then saluted the lieutenant colonel. He grinned, "always wise to check."He returned my salute and assigned me a Shark and a gunner. The sleeping huts were across the field and crowded so I was authorized to find a place in the captured city. Instead I made a few checks and contacted a construction battalion. A few cases of very high. His eyes were red from lack of sleep. He hadn’t eaten in 4 days. ‘How the hell did I ever get to this?’ he asked himself. Years of drug abuse and alcoholism had taken a great toll from him. He was sixty five, but he looked like ninety five. His hair dragged down his back to just under his shoulder blades. In the front, he had no hair. When viewed from the top, he looked like a furry toilet seat. He was just dropping off to sleep when station security showed up. ‘Get off the bench, you bum. This. "The farmer's wife was pale as milk after the story was finished but she said, "Sarah Johnston was a good woman. Billy and Anna were good kids too. That shouldn't have happened to them."Ben felt the weight of those deaths settle over him. If he could have come just a little faster; just one day earlier; maybe he could have saved those innocents. "I'm sorry," he said. "I was hoping to get here before they started but ... well, that doesn't matter now. Can you tell me anything about these men?.
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