*** We heard, before we saw, a convoy of light trucks winding its way up the rough mountain road. They pulled up in front of the group of ramshackle b...ildings at the edge of a small clearing that we had been watching for the last hour and a half. The drivers got from the trucks and helped the local workers to load bags onto the backs of the trucks. I exposed a roll of film before we walked over the ridge to our waiting Land Rover. As we walked I slipped the exposed film into an envelope. For a few moments they just looked into each other’s eyes, neither saying a word, until finally Abby said, “David… that was the most incredible thing I’ve ever felt.”Davey just smiled and said, “Thank you so much for letting me be the first to do it with you.”Tears began to fill Abby’s eyes, and her voice cracked a bit when she said, “I am so glad you were the first.”“Are you sure you won’t be sorry you didn’t wait if you meet someone,” Davey asked.“It was the best decision I’ve ever made, and. "Hi, Chuck," the Marshal sounded his usual self. "I endorse everything Sam's just said, but please be careful. I had both the VA top brass here in DC, and a very senior general from the Pentagon, tell me yesterday how grateful they were that you managed to bring this out into the open. They apparently think the whole nasty business was about to be spread to other VA institutions out there."Anyway, well done."That was the end of it – they just left me staring at the phone in my hand. John Scott. Thesound of footsteps soon caught my attention and suddenly Iheard John's voice."Bernie!" he yelled ? okay so now you know my name."Bernie!!"I froze. I saw his head peep over the fence. "Hello!" heexclaimed. "Who are you? And where's Bernard?"I whispered back that he was inside and rushed in myself. Iknew that it was dark enough for him only to have seen mysilhouette and not my face.I caught my breath hoping that I had fooled John. John andI were good friends. We watched football together.