fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about the military and the physical, logistical, emotional and moral obstacles involved.
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 27 and 28
At five in the morning two days later Mitch VanHorn’s phone rang and an official voice told him a limo was parked at his curb. He had thirty minutes to be on his way downtown to the Eisenhower building. At six thirty that morning he boarded a familiar elevator that took him to a special part of the office building. He was escorted in and told to wait. Five minutes later Ivan Sessions came into the room. They looked at each other and shrugged. Sessions used a handkerchief to wipe the perspiration from his forehead.
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 26
Rosa and Kip sat in a hallway leading from the rectory to the chapel. Rosa whispered to Kip. “At the funeral liturgy, the Church gathers with the family and friends to give praise and thanks to God for Christ's victory over sin and death, to commend the deceased to God's mercy and compassion, and to seek strength in the proclamation of the Easter mystery. The funeral liturgy is an act of worship, and not merely an expression of grief.”
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 25
Lucky for Giles, one of the bullets passed through her and hit a car, which set off the alarms. Within minutes she was discovered in a pool of blood. A person walking to their car spotted Giles’ slumped body and called 911. Minutes later EMTs and police arrived and Giles was transported to Washington Hospital Emergency room. Although her pulse was barely visible she was alive and immediately put on life support. Without any identification security forces were forced to take DNA and fingerprints in the emergency room and by the time the doctors were ready to treat her they still had no answers to who she was or where she was from. She was toe tagged, “Female 1-alien” and given a name of “Miss Ava.”
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 22 and 23
The fax machine whirred and a well armed grizzled faced man looked up from his nap, the heat and the beer from his shack in Brazil made him heavy eyed. He snatched the paper off of the machine read the description and stared at the picture.
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 21
“A large bunch, seven or more ATVs plus the natives, looks like they’re coming this way.” One of the ranch hands reported. I saw them through my binoculars when looking for a stray. Hard to tell who they were, but they were loading something and seemed to be headed toward the old trail.”
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 18
Rosa slept fitfully on a davenport for two days before her host met her at breakfast and said, “There’s a government truck coming up from Bogota to get the mail out of the airplane. They’ll have to build a trail to the aircraft, but I doubt they’ll come up to the ranch. We buried the pilot the other night up in the family graveyard. I have his ID and billfold so we will contact the airport next time we go to the city and they can find his family if any.” He paused. “Oh, I asked for medical when I told them about the airplane, but I might as well been asking for a Christmas tree delivered by Santa from the North Pole. So, I don’t know what will come. I tried that number you gave me in Costa Rica again, but there was no answer. Someday maybe we will get a cellular tower up in this part of the country.”
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
Mike Smith Is Dead—Pt. 16
By nine that evening they were sitting in the Rum Point restaurant on Grand Cayman. Entering the island republic was not much of a chore, especially when Kip announced it was for banking business. A taxi took Rosa to the Funky Monkey clothing store where she purchased four days of clothes for Kip and herself plus a suitcase and toiletries. Kip spent the early evening at The Royal Bank of Canada where he deposited all but ten thousand dollars of US currency in the bank, and secured a bank note of his deposit. The remaining ten thousand dollars in Calones he handed to Sonny with a request for a drop at St. Croix.
By Dub Wright6 years ago in Serve
