What a shock it was. He had lost half his right leg and all of his right arm, also he was blind in his right eye. He left us as a fine handsome young ...an and came back a complete wreck. War was a dirty business.Joe was in Hospital for months. They fitted him with artificial limbs, they were hideous looking things. After what seemed an eternity Joe was discharged but things were not as they had been between him and Ruth. She came to me more and more and Joe became quite distant.During the time. The captain called for the Liverpool pilot, but the sea was too ferocious. The captain decided to shelter in the Bay. but the ship’s anchor chain broke under the strain and drove us stern first onto the rocks off Moelfre. The waves were so tumultuous that we struck the rocks fifty yards from the shore. The ship broke in half …throwing many of us in the sea. All of us returning from the goldfields and to save our fortunes we were filling our bags and pockets with gold dust and leaping into the. My mother returned with a drink of water and she placed the glass on the bedside cabinet, turned off the light then got into bed. After a while i fell asleep next to my mum and she was cuddling up close to me to get my body heat.I awoke with my boxers pulled half way down and my mother stroking my erection (i guess i was having a good dream) and i opened my eyes and sat up quite quickly, My mother jumped back apologizing to me and not making eye contact wih me. When she looked me in the eyes i. Drinks and wings are ordered and we watch some sports and news. Usually work comes up, Bob wonders how one guy still has a job with the amount of shit he breaks. I always wonder why dispatch thinks an eighty thousand pound truck can travel as fast as a sports car. It is the usual Saturday night crowd, only a couple of assholes bother anyone. “I never asked, who are we going to see?” I ask as the waitress brings us our food. Which brings out the only other thing about Bob that makes me a little.