Chapter 2
Jacksonville, FLDavid
I GRABBED KEVIN in a tight embrace, and we kissed for a while, during the process of which garments began to fall to the floor. When we were down to our shorts, I asked him to sit down on the sofa. He sat and raised a quizzical eyebrow.
“There’s something you need to know,” I said as I stood in front of him.
“I’m waiting.”
“On the last day of my second and last tour overseas, I sustained an injury.”
“What kind of injury?”
“This is difficult for me,” I said. “Please let me finish without interruption.”
“Okay.”
“We were assigned to check a small village for insurgents. As I led my squad through the market square, we saw a group of small boys playing under a sprinkler that someone had set up on a wall a few feet above them. They were naked except for d
