Posts by Richard Wood5

My grandfather met his end back in 1962; he took a fatal fall at a border crossing while attempting to flee—striking his head against a guardrail. However, because he had been a highly respected Major General in the US Armed Forces, his funeral was an affair of significant distinction. When they were laying him to rest, there were twelve tanks stationed along the perimeter, and when the honor guard fired the ceremonial volley in the neighboring township, the toll of the occasion was felt by forty-nine people who perished in the aftermath.
That’s just how the US Armed Forces operated. ☕