Thailand, the Comfort of Strangers and Friends
The lovely, warm and smiley anesthesiologist talked calmly and put the mask over my face asking me to breathe deeply.…
American Football, the LA Experience
It’s been a lot of years but the memories are still vivid although they are abstract sounds and colours of
Soldier X | Part 10, Walking Tall
Walking Tall It is hard now to remember what life was like back then I believed
Soldier X | Part 9, Berlin
Berlin He adjusts his jacket, sits and adjusts his trouser legs, tics, opens his book, pause. Stillness
Soldier X | Part 8, Belfast
Belfast I was sitting there watching Smithy smoke a joint as he lay on his pit. I got
Soldier X | Part 7, Germany 1945
Germany 1945 He is in an armchair and takes off his reading glasses, tics, lays his book in his
Soldier X | Part Six, Normandy
Normandy This is where I began; after my father died. It’s a beautiful part of France and the beaches that
Soldier X | Part Five, Meat Wagons & Memorials
Meat Wagons & Memorials Because we were involved in covert soldiering in Northern Ireland we were transported from
Soldier X | Part Four, Cadiz
Cadiz Auntie Elsie married Uncle Charlie; they had a son Arthur and a daughter Monica. Arthur was about my
Soldier X | Part Three, Munich
Munich There were dances almost every night in village halls, church halls, the Palais. Another pal was a