For the first time in her life, she went to bed with no clothes on. It seemed villainous and nasty, but why not? This opened her mind to new ideals, b...t all she could think about was the feelings of Bob’s fingers inside of her, feeling the places that no one has ever felt before.This got her all hot and bothered. She threw off the blankets and started massaging her nipples, pulling on them, twisting them. Then she felt a tingling feeling between her legs, the same feelings she felt with Bob.. . or kill him."And that's how Billy became a man and a "real" Marine. Being a charter member of The Siege of Khe Sanh Club taught him everything there was to know about depending on others and having them depend on you.Six months into his vacation at Khe Sanh, Billy was laying in a trench feeling the mortars burst around him. It was like going to the stock car races. On television you could watch and listen to the race but if you went in person you could feel the race. It was the same with the. I knew she believed that she couldn't be seen at school even talking to Karen or me. I saw Karen sitting by herself at lunchtime. I sat down, not too far from her and waited until she looked up from her food. Then, I waved to her. She didn't wave back, but she did smile.Harriet came over to me in fifth period English and checked with me to make sure that I still planned to be her date at the dance. I told her that I'd be there in front of the auditorium before seven on Friday. She told me not. When they had a year left in their undergrad programs I finally graduated and got a job with a company that specialized in building microwave towers like the ones you see dotting the landscape. The job site I had to go to always changed, and pretty frequently, since my own specialty was inspection of other people’s work so that a certified engineer signed off on it.What that meant was that I could live anywhere I wanted. The company gave me a car and if I needed to go more than three hundred.