Jim Long's girlfriend Kathy was a close friend of Debby. The schoolprovided counselors for this sort of thing too, as in some ways it waslike a death....Kathy is pretty broken up. She feels so bad because she didn't havesex with Jim," continued Debby. "Now, they can't, it's so tragic."Scott didn't say anything. Jim may have turned, but Jim wasn't dead,still to Kathy maybe Jim was dead, he thought. He then wondered ifDebby would mourn him in the same way should he turn. He decided notto bring it. "First I took the squad radio from sergeant Zon and slipped the earpiece in and keyed the handset, "Papa this is four bravo."I moved to inject pain meds and help private Gote as the platoon sergeant answered. We could hear what sounded like a major fire fight towards the docks, "four bravo this is Papa Sierra, papa is down. Abort your objective and move to the north and link with first on objective bravo."I frowned, "Papa Sierra, four is down and so is all of four alpha. Two dead and two. When he was ten, he had been put in an accelerated learning program. He had already skipped a grade because he had driven his second-grade teacher, nutty. She had him deposited in a grade three class after the first month, and he didn’t go back.Legally he was supposed to be in the school system until he was seventeen. He had been offered a scholarship to study Geology and Gemmology when he finished High School, but he needed money to live on if he was to complete his studies.He had been. ” Jennifer smiled and agreed that it was a good idea. “Maybe we could ask Elizabeth and Helen if they’d look after it for the community,” she said. “That’s a good idea,” I said. “If we did that, perhaps we should ask anyone that uses the tent to pay a small fee so that it isn’t a burden for Elizabeth and Helen.”We continued our discussions and finally decided to have a chat with the elders to get their take on the idea and to make sure that the ladies were comfortable with the idea as well..