Patriot Son: Battlefront America by T.A. Walters

Author:T.A. Walters [Walters, T.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-24T18:30:00+00:00

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Scuba Bill ordered an AP hookup on the ranch home belonging to the former resident he’d ordered launched to the moon. Of course, the resident and his neighbor had rolled the dice and had lost as far as Bill was concerned. The way he figured it; they’d paid dearly for the air attack that had killed twenty-three of his convoy team. A Humvee and a troop carrier were also on the list of fatalities. The only good thing (if it could be considered as such) was that the twenty-three members were “clean kills,” and no one else had been injured or needed major first aid.

Once the auxiliary power (AP unit) was hooked up to the ranch home, the car batteries that serviced the radio gear began charging, and the house lights came on, along with the home’s water heater for showers and so on.

Joe took over the burial of those victims of the air attack. A ten-man task force went to work digging a long trench to lay them to rest.

Kat and Penny were returning from washing up and doing some laundry when they passed by Scuba Bill, who was checking on some maps on the rear porch. He glanced up and gave Penny a sobering look as she slowed down to give him a little leeway between her and him. “Ok, so you scared me a little bit,” he said, swiping his hand up over his forehead and onto the crown of his sandy-colored hair. “Don’t think that I’m partial to you, you little runt—because I ain’t.”

Penny stopped and placed her hands on her hips. “Little runt?”

“Well, what I mean is,” Bill began to stammer, “is, er, you ain’t no more special around here than anyone else.”

Kat was too busy laughing to pull Penny away in time. “I’ll have you know, mister, I was in my sixth year of college while you were playing cowboy in my neighborhood,” Penny retorted.

“Kat!” Bill shouted. “Will you please get this skeleton girl something to eat?”

Penny huffed. “Skeleton girl?”

“Yes, sir,” Kat replied, grabbing Penny by the arm and pulling her along.

Penny’s face turned red. “I might be a skeleton girl, but I’m the best skeleton girl you’ll ever know!”

Kat shook her head as she yanked on Penny’s arm and dragged her away. “That was a pretty dumb thing to say.”

An air of chagrin fell over Penny, and after a moment, she quietly agreed, dropping her stare to the ground at her feet. “One of those things you say in a fit of anger that just doesn’t come out right, I guess.”

Just a hint of a smile crossed her face when she told Kat that she wasn’t the only one who was happy that she had been in the JLTV when the air attack had happened. Penny then recalled hearing Scuba Bill yelling her name after the assault. “He just feels sorry for me because… well, because he thinks Filipino women are deprived in some way. Like, he thinks I am a just a child.

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