We Live in Water
“It’s August 2003: two weeks since I found out I failed the bar exam, six months since I got divorced, a year since I caught my wife with another man, eighteen months since she caught me cheating.
I’m on quite a streak.
Bobby’s active duty in the air force, stationed at Fairchild; he gets us a lift on a transport out of Spokane. They strap us into jump seats in this flying boxcar and the thing lurches and rumbles and finally leaves the earth, Bobby giving a thumbs-up. I yell over the rumble of t...he plane, Are you scared?
In three weeks Bobby leaves for Iraq.
Scared? He flips up his sunglasses and grins at me. Bobby and I played football together at Mead High School, where we had one of those classic little-guy, big-guy friendships. But we hadn’t seen each other in years when I bumped into him at a bar in Spokane. Bobby teaches at the air force survival school. It’s the same thing he’ll do in Iraq: teach airmen how to live on lice and tree bark, how to withstand torture if they’re captured.MoreLess
I’m on quite a streak.
Bobby’s active duty in the air force, stationed at Fairchild; he gets us a lift on a transport out of Spokane. They strap us into jump seats in this flying boxcar and the thing lurches and rumbles and finally leaves the earth, Bobby giving a thumbs-up. I yell over the rumble of t...he plane, Are you scared?
In three weeks Bobby leaves for Iraq.
Scared? He flips up his sunglasses and grins at me. Bobby and I played football together at Mead High School, where we had one of those classic little-guy, big-guy friendships. But we hadn’t seen each other in years when I bumped into him at a bar in Spokane. Bobby teaches at the air force survival school. It’s the same thing he’ll do in Iraq: teach airmen how to live on lice and tree bark, how to withstand torture if they’re captured.MoreLess
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