When word started filtering down to the troops about how we had suffered a terrible defeat during the TET offensive, I could see guys scratching their...heads trying to figure out where that “battle” had taken place. I suspect it was in some boozed up writer’s head sitting in Tokyo or Hong Kong a nice safe distance from the battlefield.I could just picture the reaction in Britain, if the media had portrayed the “Battle of the Bulge” as the turning point of WWII. The “victorious German Wehrmacht. In this happy little vein the group of seven was whiling away the afternoon until Kate went all silent and started pointing surreptitiously at something, or rather someone, coming out of one of the shops way over on the other side of the busy concourse.Jessie was the first one to see what it was that Kate was pointing at and gently put one hand over her mouth and said, “Oh my gosh! I guess our little town isn’t so conservative now after all. First it was your dad, Kate, now this!”Jamahl was the. His name was Steve. We did not ask for a lot of particulars though he did volunteer that he was stuck in town due to car trouble for a couple days and, eventually, would be continuing on to Houston on business. We offered that we were from some distance out of town and were celebrating the holiday away from nosey neighbors.As we talked, D (by pre-arranged signal) put her hand out on the table where I could take it in mine. Maybe three minutes later, she gave it one, snug squeeze. This was the. I read the letter .'Jack, we are glad you took this job , find the map, it will help you find your way to the temple with the small village near by. We would not recommend you going in to the village after you visit the temple as they will search you from what our sources say. If you go before just bring some things from town that are not easy to find in the village , perhaps some medicine, rice or something. Either way , we don't really know what the main artifact is inside of there , but also.