The missile was on target all the way in, striking it even before I had to turn my attention to defending myself. When it struck, my onboard battle co...puter sent a message to my heads-up display saying that the target had been destroyed. That made me very happy indeed. Then I rolled my bird to the right and tried for a lock-on against the two closing bogies.The bogies were about ten miles out when I finally turned my attention towards them. I got a lock-on the first one without any problem and. "I moved the chair as directed. Judy said, "John, take Mary's hands and hold them. Mary, lift up your head and look into John's eyes. Don't look anywhere else except at John's eyes."Mary reluctantly looked at me; her face remained flustered as she stared at me.Judy waited for at least three minutes as we held hands and stared at each other and then continued, "It is a tradition that when the pledge partners are introduced at the beginning of hell day, they kiss as a symbol of their support for. All I could see was a typically anonymous Japanese cityscape, with no clue as to where exactly in Tokyo I was. It was quite an adventure to be alone in an unknown apartment, with no clothes. Well, the only thing to do was go along with the adventure and see what happened. Meanwhile I needed that shower. There was a bathroom off the bedroom, with a very modern shower equipped with different sprays – not just the simple hand-shower on a bracket so usual in Japan. I enjoyed myself, washing my body. That changed the next day. Friday, I flew down to Washington and read the Sun. Fletcher had a piece on the Opinion page about the soap I received, along with most of the Congressional delegation from Maryland. He had spent part of yesterday afternoon calling around to the various Field Offices to see what was going on. In Washington, when the mail came around, I received four bars of soap, and I called back to Westminster and was told another three had come in. I also got a bunch of phone calls.