“Shalom my valued friend,” I replied.Ching Lee looked at me with a puzzled expression but then put her head back on my shoulder without asking any...questions.We arrived back at Morton field in time to see the hunters off again. This time it was Jason, Dad and Robin; it was the third time they were going hunting. Dad and Jason both had to have a thermos of coffee to carry with them.The second time they went Dad and Robin both bagged two does and Jason one. The venison was donated to the homeless. Eighty thousand homeless have been moved to Camp Parks, they have had the opportunity to bathe, been issued new clean clothes, fed and are sleeping in hurricane recovery tents on cots, not on sidewalks. Those deemed to have mental issues or medical issues are being housed separately and medical teams are taking care of their needs.’’‘‘Fifteen thousand rioters have been arrested and will be charged with a variety of federal crimes in force under martial law.”‘‘I question if you have the. The engineers were deployed to various places around the area to help build roads and bridges.This whole shebang was under the command of a brigadier general named Hawkins from Fort Benning who saw Southern Shield ‘81 as his ticket to the E-ring at the Pentagon. He was constantly climbing up the asses of the majors and colonels involved and making them do it harder and faster and tougher, etc. etc. etc. As a captain, though, I was so far down the food chain that I wasn’t worthy of notice. That. She spotted the young man as he approached and decided to put in a word for him, if nothing else it would reduce the numbers she was competing with. In the end Steven ended up picking Alan, the young man, a young waitress by the name of Angela and two older women, Wendy and Nancy.Elizabeth hadn’t released her grip on John since she’d entered the tent and had looked positively scared at times but the young man, who despite giving the impression of being a free spirit, proved to be very sensible.