The Year 2020
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The author feels this fiction is going to be very interesting for many of you, he’s a 43 year old African American. The author initially summarized himself as a man that grew up in a troubling and terrorizing America; he explains why shortly. After high school he attended Purdue University on a football scholarship. Due to circumstances beyond his control and no money for personal needs, he becomes interested in the military as away out of school. A navy recruiter with outstanding communication skills, talked him into joining the navy. He did 10 years in the navy from 1981 until 1991. During his 10 year run in the navy, he saw the western part of the world; including Africa. You’re probably asking yourself why didn’t he do 20 years and retire. Well, he was racially attacked by 12 to 15 white marines one night while being stationed on Adak, Alaska, a small island in the Bering Sea. Both navy and marine leadership, protected the white marines and tried to blame the author for them attacking him. After that night he started experiencing the effects of a nervous stomach for about six months. He really couldn’t eat solid food, if he did, he would throw it back up. Because of that terrible attack on him, he started to read and study every book that he could get his hands on concerning black folks. The author wanted to know our history in this country and the rest of the world. He tells me it’s shocking how much we don’t know about our history. How many of us don’t like to read or really don’t know how to read. I asked the author why so many of us don’t know how to read. He tells me that reading is vision and many of us don‘t have vision. And if you don’t have a vision you don’t have a goal. Without vision you will not understand or remember what you read in your long term memory, only in your short term memory. When you read one of his amazing stories, envision yourself actually being there in the story as you read it. In the end, the Author sums up what he‘s really about in his own words. “So, I guess deep down in my heart I’m about Vision, Love, Peace and Understanding. Without understanding there is no peace. Without peace there is no love for each other. And without vision you are doomed to repeat the past. This is why I love to write. Thank you.”