Henry Bowman's right hand tightened around the walnut grip of the Solothurn S18-1000. The weapon had been a present from his Father, given to him on his fourteenth birthday in 1967. Cost $189.50 back in the sixties Henry thought irrelevantly. I thought that was a steal. Dad's friends thought it was astronomical. Wonder what they'd think now. --UC
I just grew up without "YOU" in the guise of Uncle Sam breathing down my neck...
we used to play what we called 'roller derby', but it was just 5 or 6 kids with the really crappy kind of roller skates, you know the ones that would fall off if you didn't have a skate key and shoes, not sneakers...
knocking the shit out of each other on a side street in Brooklyn!!
We didn't have helmets or kneepads and any kid that did would have been mocked to death!!!
All you will ever succeed in doing is turning boy children into girls and girl children into wrestlers...
I am sure you will be welcome in hell for your duty!!!
But I guess you already know that.