"I'm sorry butI don't want you to look at me right now." James, please don't go." Linda said sobbing.Faith stopped in the doorway, but didn't turn aro...nd to look at hersister."I'm sorry...I just can't. I'm..." James." Linda said as she watched her other brother disappear fromsight.Within a few moments a security guard, a couple of orderlies andseveral nurse were in the room trying to determine what had happened.Linda sat and ignored the questions of the nurse and tried not tonotice as the. " I thought, "Oh crap and locked my screen and went over to Mom.”I just was talking to Bill, and he said that you might need to talk. He told me about what happened this morning."I was just staring at the floor. How could I have been so stupid! I was flirting with my new step-dad and one thing led to another and... Shit! What was I going to ever say to Mom. I turned and looked at her and found a half smile on her lips and it caught me off guard."It's okay, honey. I told you he is a. They paused for a second as if in deliberation then the shell clad army flooded down the tube scurrying at speed towards the town.The major didn't see the bright light clear the dome, but heard the sonic boom as it thundered into the sky. He spun to see a star with a trailing tail arch up into the stratosphere, within seconds out of sight already free of the earth's gravity. He'd already seen what he thought was a cannon through his night sight, now the deafening crack of a shell confirmed it.. This young man, and this photograph, espoused the apex of bravery and sacrifice. He stared at it so long that the turntable attendant spoke."Sir?" Yes," sighed Harold. "Go on."For Stephanie Wells, it was the eyes that drew her attention, particularly the fact that the eyes were identical, warm, full of life—just normal brown eyes. But those eyes were in a head that had two faces. Half was the face of any young man, with his dreams and hopes and plans. The other half was the essence of.