Jon and the other members of their settlement family are awakened by calls for help from the other groups. What they find is more than they were expecting. We have a radio downstairs, as well as the one upstairs and we are starting to get calls from some of the men in our group, telling us they are okay, but that was a close one. We are also getting calls from the other groups telling us that they ran into the same thing we did when they started to go to the Docs aid. While we are talking, trying to figure out what is happening; a voice comes over the radio that I have never heard before. He...

When Jon, Tim, and some of the others go for a boating excursion they run into a situation they were not expecting. We pretty much run out of stories to tell, so we all kind of sit around with our thoughts. We are all glad that we brought along jackets as well as rain gear, in case we ran into a squall of some kind. The fog is cold and very damp, but none of us want to go below deck, even if we are uncomfortable. I look at my watch and even that has quit working. Tim is looking at his, then he looks at me and says it can't be. LT starts to say that this is what the fog was like that night he...

Somewhere around midnight I must have dozed off, but now I am completely awake. Did I hear something or is my imagination playing tricks on me? I have stayed here enough to know the night sounds the house makes, every house is different. There it is again, it sounds like someone at the back door. Not knocking, working the door knob or something like that. I get up and grab an aluminum baseball bat that is in the family room for some reason, I'm glad it is. I walk as quietly as I can into the kitchen staying close to the wall so I won't be highlighted by the light in the family room. Every...

They have just about time left to mount a drive, but on third and ten from their own thirty the quarterback watches the tight end just a little too closely, I step in front of the ball just before he gets it and I'm off to the end zone. I am not as fast as I was last year, the quarterback catches me at the five, but he can't stop me until we cross the goal line. I am getting up listening to the crowd cheer when I get hit from behind directly over the wound. I go down hard and my side and back feel like they did that day when I had to go in for the second surgery. I can hardly breathe for a...

The second half of Junior Year for Ed, Mindy, and the gang. Their lives are changing, evolving, rearranging to travel the road to their futures, whether that means together or apart and the choices they make that could affect their futures.

College football can be rough on an athlete with no serious injuries. Eddie and Mindy are finding out that ability is not the only factor to be considered at this level. When I get there the doctor is very pleasant, he has me undress down to my underwear and lay on the MRI table. He sees the scars from the bullet wounds and asks if there is any chance of shrapnel in my body. Mom tells him there could very well be so he says we can't use this we have to do a CT scan. They do the scan and I am hurting more now than I did before. When it is done he tells me to get dressed and he will be out...

We line up again and again I throw off the block and hit him waist high and drive him into the ground for a loss. The next play they put a three hundred pound guard to block me, he makes the mistake of coming at me high. I duck below his waist and flip him over my back, he lands flat on his neck and shoulders, and then I drive the ball carrier into the dirt again. The coach comes over and tells me it's only practice. Take it easy, we are on the same team. "Why didn't you say that to him this morning, when he hits me from behind with no pads it's a great hit, when I hit him doing my job I'm...

Mindy, Kathy, Amy and the rest of the team learn that at this level of softball the competition can sometimes be your Best Friends. The Tuesday night game is a replay of the Monday night game except that Mindy and Amy combine for a no-hitter against them. Ramona pitches flawlessly for six innings, but is not feeling well so they replace her for the first time in the tournament. We have had no more success than they have scoring in this game. In the top of the seventh we have our last at bat before they have one more shot to win it. With one out Kathy has a chance to be the hero again, but...