President’ ‘They’ll be dead or worse in five. We’re going in, we’re switching to Tac two.’ ‘Mr. President…’ The four star combatant ...ommander knew that protest was futile. He’d known the POTUS since their first war together. He remembered fondly his first meeting with the then brand new lieutenant. He’d known then that he was different…special. He’d had no idea how special. How had Hal Franks become President of the United States and leader of the free world? Reluctantly, for sure, even more so. I found a good job with a local office of a large corporation. I was a salesman.I met the ‘rents, and to say that they were underwhelmed is a gross understatement. Jan’s mother was outright hostile, and her father did not even shake my hand when I offered. I was pissed.I said to Jan; “I do not need this treatment. I never did anything to deserve this. You need to decide in about 15 seconds if you are going with me because I am out of here.”Jan looked like a deer in the headlights and did not. After that I was give my dolly, which I had dropped during the paddling,and told to go and stand with my nose to the corner. She also told me tohold my dolly in one arm, and to put the thumb of my right hand in mymouth. I was to stay like that till given permission to leave.Meanwhile as I stood facing the corner, Auntie Jennifer and Nanny Rosesat down on the other side of the room to talk and drink some tea. Icouldn't hear what was said, but I knew they were talking about me. Itwas a good. He would march south this day and hope to come across a deer or perhaps a wolf, who still bore a silver mark bounty, though none had been seen in this wood for four years.It was a crisp spring morning, and the sun was still low in the sky. He watched his breath turn to smoke as he exhaled and reveled in the tingling at the ends of his ears and tip of his nose. As his mother said, he turned out a handsome lad, tall and broad shouldered, with well-muscled arms from the heavy work of skinning and.