It was an undesirable view, and I regretted my foolishness in agreeing to accompany my Canadian handler to this silly assignment back into the jaws of... danger.I was able to hear the first round or prayer wafting up to our hotel room with startling clarity. It brought back memories of my youth and my beloved home in Islamabad in a time of innocence amongst the ruins.I remembered my first bout of oral sex.In the spirit of complete disclosure, I must admit it was with my now-dead older sister who. For once my land time coincided with their annual pilgrimage to the park and to Thomas land in particular. This was only the second time in the last four years that was able to come with them, and the first that Vickki and Jonny were old enough to remember me. The last time they were one and two respectively.As we stood in line to enter I couldn’t help but notice a strange man kept glancing my way. Whenever our eyes met I got a creepy feeling from him. Finally as we got in the guy disappeared. Shortly after they married, he got drafted and went to Vietnam for two tours. He went through Airborne and Ranger schools, and then through SFBS, and the Green Beret Q-Course. I credit him as my motivation to join the Army myself, and to aspire to become the best of the best, like him.So yeah, I started thinking of Naomi and John as Mom and Dad, and then started calling them that. They treated me as if I was their own, anyway.Cara and I grew up around the world, as all Army Brats do. We ran. " If Laura wanted to live her life as a boy, she would live her life asa boy," mum says, clearly getting angry with her son. "She chose tolive life as a girl, and we have respected her wishes, and you will dothe same!" No I won't," Ricky says flippantly. "Because it's not normal, and it'snot right. If he'd said 'I want to live life as a dog', would you havelet him?" That argument doesn't even make any sense," grandma sneers."You're not an idiot," mum sighs. "You know that there are people inthe.