.Flashback – Jack and Ben – A new missionI was in the aisle doing fucking pushups with the rest of the Marines and complained to Banzai, "Shit Ban...ai, don't do anything the rest of the flight and we just..."I didn't finish because the fucking plane hit an air pocket, we dropped like a rock and the next thing I knew I was falling from the ceiling to the floor. I made sure I landed fine and was feeling okay until some big fuck Marine crashed down on top of me...The fucking Captain M didn't like. This will be my (Lillian's) last Annual Letter - I'mturning over the journalistic duties to Elaine. I'm sure she will be upto the job of carrying on in future. But I digress... Let's begin nearthe beginning...2004 began with a delightful excursion to our favorite Old Worldcapitol, The Hague. Tommy arranged a business trip on the flimsy excusethat an old comrade of his was retiring. I was delighted to go, ofcourse, and planned the whole affair to make the most of it. We arrivedat Schiphol, as. I simply figured you were some sort of branch manager or something. You know banks, they hand out titles like candy!”“I was, once, about thirty years ago.”“So, how’d you get into the banking business, anyway?” she asked.“It just kind of happened. After Millie and I got married, I still didn’t want to go to work in the coal mines, so we up and moved north to the big city. It wasn’t hard getting a job in those days with just a high school diploma, and I got a job as a junior teller at a bank near. "I am sure Dorothy Parker was a very smart woman but back then, glasses were pretty much the same style for men and women. Thank science for plastic as it opened a whole new world of possibilities, like in eyeglasses, nice sexy framesAnother week and I'd be graduating High School with honors and I have a good job lined up as an electrician's apprentice. Mom was very pleased. Dad" yeah he was out sending freight across the country and so often he was not around when it came to anything big in my.