”“Why not?” the young man said, in a very belligerent tone.“I have a deep love for my fellow man, but I love my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ m...re than anyone else. You have seen me pray, that is my way to tell him how I feel. Have you ever prayed, Donald?”“Not in a long time. When my dad left, I prayed for him to come back, but he didn’t and I stopped praying. It didn’t seem to work for me.”“You expected too much too soon,” John said giving him a light pat on the shoulder. “Why don’t you join. “I mean that fact that we pay Henry and that ensures that he loses everything that should be mine anyway.”Henry looked up at his adversary and thought, ‘She actually thinks that the money is hers. Until five years ago she had never even heard of my aunt Maisy, now she has had the money in her care so long that it has become her right.’Crystal must have noticed a slight change in his demeanour because a frown came to her face.Her hand slapped his face sharply, like a mother punishing her child. " Why don't you let me worry about the marines?" Jackson said. "In the meantime, we have some shooting to stop, don't we? Things are quiet at the base right now. I'll instruct my troops guarding it to take defensive measures only for the time being. You need to instruct your troops to disable their weapons and put them back in storage. Nobody is to leave. When things stabilize around here, we'll be entering the barracks to take control of it." I want my men to be treated as POWs," Sega said.. One of those NFL incomes’d put me in that kind of transportation.”“Gee,” her dad said, “I’ve never shot a football player before...”Bill commiserated. “The perils of fathers of girls.”“Yeah,” Haley tittered. “I saw you watching Matt following Deena around all day.”“Ewwww,” Deena said. “The boy was sooo obvious ... I mean, I was the ONLY girl his age here...”“Baby,” Bill said to his daughter, “If there’d been thirty of ‘em, you would’ve been the pick of the bunch.”“Thanks Dad,” she said. “I hope.