While Rita was on the phone with Margie, Tommy was in Melody’s bedroom playing spin the bottle with Melody and Regina. The game was Melody’s idea,...and she had prepared for it in advance. The game was simple, the person who spun the bottle and the one it landed on went into Melody’s closet for three minutes of anything they wanted. The person left out kept the time. Melody had even cleaned off the floor of the closet and thrown down a couple of quilts. Melody and Regina liked the idea because. That he'd written a book of poetry a couple of years ago and that he earned a bit of money doing a column in an Aussie Motorcycling magazine. And I remember his beautiful baritone singing of Irish folk songs,'I wish that we were geese''So we all could live in peace''Oh the taties they are small, over here'And.'O' bean a ti cen muirt sin ort'And.'Nil sen la'.Hmm, maybe I remember more than I thought.Later, we ended up sitting on the beach watching the sun go down. The surfcasters were out and a. He had arrived inSkiathos, a small Greek island in the Aegean sea, with his family late lastnight for the start of a two week holiday that his father had treated themto out of the last of his redundancy money.His father had been through a rough time recently after being laid off fromthe factory that he had worked in since he had left school and was nowstruggling to find a job. He still had his pride however. This time last year he had promised the family a holiday abroad tocelebrate Stephen's. Red headed, freckle-faced Andy Andrews, Mark’s friend and squad leader, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl P. Andrews, brother of Paul and Joyce, Kim Irving Andrew’s husband, and father of their three month old daughter Kacey, was killed instantly when members of the North Vietnamese Army manning a recoilless rifle, scored a direct hit on his position. In the next few weeks, getting killed or wounded became commonplace. A week later, Fred ‘Hassle’ Castle, a quiet brother from Mississippi, became the next.