Ghosts of War
The True Story of a 19-Year-Old GI
Chapter One
Stuck in the Fence
East Greenbush, New York, is a suburb of Albany. Middle-class and about as average as it gets. The work was steady, the incomes were suitable, and the kids at Columbia High School were wannabes. They wanted to be rich. They wanted to be hot. They wanted to be tough. They wanted to be too cool for the kids who wanted to be rich, hot, and tough.
Picture me: the average teenage boy. Blond hair and blue eyes, smaller than average build, and I'll admit, a little dorky. I sat in third-period lunch with friends wearing my brand-new Aéropostale T-shirt and backward hat, wanting to be self-confident. The smells of greasy school lunches filled the air. We were at one of the identical fold-out tables. We were talking, but my thoughts were on my girlfriend, Heather. She was a senior this year and would finally be done. I was a junior and had two more years to go. What a drag.
I had turned sixteen less than a month ago, and so far being sixteen was boring as hell. I remembered watching shows like ... read full excerpt from: Ghosts of War ebook
