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4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti My father was taking my son there, on a world tour...probably as his cover. My son was so little...when my brother told me NOT to allow my father to take him to Sri Lanka because of the civil war, I laid down the law...hahaha...what a joke my wishes for my son's safety were, to my father.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti After we found that paper, a lot of things began to make sense, that had always seemed so odd.
He was a member of the US Army reserves. He fought in two wars. His regular job was connected to the army. He saved every dime, and travelled every year...sometimes alone, and later, with my mother, and after that, with my son.
I won't go into too much detail, but there were many things that made no sense.
For example, I remember my mother crying and telling me that she had found out my father owned a private mail box. At the time, she thought he was cheating on her. I KNEW he wasn't. He was one of the original boy scouts...so filled with honor and outrage for sinners...I knew he was innocent.
He was a member of the US Army reserves. He fought in two wars. His regular job was connected to the army. He saved every dime, and travelled every year...sometimes alone, and later, with my mother, and after that, with my son.
I won't go into too much detail, but there were many things that made no sense.
For example, I remember my mother crying and telling me that she had found out my father owned a private mail box. At the time, she thought he was cheating on her. I KNEW he wasn't. He was one of the original boy scouts...so filled with honor and outrage for sinners...I knew he was innocent.
cherokeepatti · 61-69, F
@4meAndyou I had a friend in grade school, my aunt worked with her at the university kitchen. She told my aunt that she had no idea what her husband did for a living, only knew that he worked at the Air Force base in Oklahoma City. He never even gave a hint. Twice a year men in black would come to her place of work and ask to speak to her, they’d go somewhere private & they would interrogate her to see if her husband had peeped out anything about his job. This also happened to each one of his children from the time they were young in grade school, they came to the school, the teacher would tell her to go to the office. When she came back she’d tell me it was the men asking about her father & his job. I stayed over at her house a few times, her father had a strange personality. He rarely said 3 words, the only emotion he ever showed was when he came home & saw the youngest boy who was about 4 years old, he’d bring a little toy & his face would just light up. They had 5 children. His wife had to work to pay for their lunches, their clothing, their gas money & she’d buy the teens a used car so they could get jobs etc. Their home had no decor, two pieces of furniture in the living room of their small home, a plain sofa and chair with a little table to set a cup of coffee on. They barely had blankets and turned the heat down so low I’d be shivering when sleeping. The man’s job apparently didn’t pay all that well. I had neighbors with children, their daddy worked at the Air Force base and they had a bigger home, nice furnishings, and a vacation cabin at the lake in another county. They seemed to live a much better lifestyle. After he retired a few years one day he told his wife he was going to go for a drive to the lake, and the park rangers found his body in his car with a gunshot wound to the head in a remote area of the park, it was winter time too so no witnesses. The family believed the govt. murdered him to keep him talking about whatever he was doing on his job.