CHAPTER THREE
May 3, 1999, 11:45 A.M
Major Crimes Section
Office of the United States Attorney
Tampa Division, Middle District of Florida
I wouldn’t trade my experiences as an enlisted man and non-commissioned officer for anything. Only my wife, sons, daughters, and grandchildren have more value.
In the three decades after the war, I had many successes and some dismal failures. After Vietnam, I married an Army nurse. We had two daughters. We put each other through college: grad school for her and law school for me.
In 1974, I returned to active duty in the Army as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps. I’d found a way to reconcile my two treasured goals. My first assignment as an officer was with the 82nd Airborne Division. For the next few years, I jumped out of airplanes
