Man, Stunt, this is one heavy thread. Damn!!
First, Onlyme, your cute, beautiful daughter, with one of the sweetest smiles in
the world...is still missing?? Without saying anything else, if you want to conduct a Southern Cal search (if you haven't already), please count me in. I used to do a lot of investigative work and writing and I'm pretty persistent when it comes to matters like this...especially this!! I have two daughters, 20 and 23, I simply can't imagine what you must be going through. But I do enough to make my offer. In all sincerity, if and when you want to search...I volunteer to be on your team, no questions asked, no quarter, no conditions. Period. She's in my thoughts & P's.
Now, this is tough. My 25 year old son, Adam, a gifted writer and artist but major time noncomformist, is a junkie, big time. Two years ago, at my ex-wife's house, while she was flying & away (a stew), Adam's best friend, 21 at the time, o'd at the house while Adam passed out at the computer. My 18-year-old
daughter was at work. When my daughter came home, she found this strange
guy in her bed, dead...all his bodily fluids gone from his body, on her bed, floor.
My son recovered and vowed he learned a lesson (Pot, meth, crack, Ex, heroin)
That lesson lasted about two weeks and he was getting right back to town.
He's been in jail 6 times or so. Has lost at least 5-6 friends via death, to drugs.
Just recently around Xmas, he called me (from Utah) and said he was tired of
the life and wanted to join the military. He had NEVER, NEVER said that before.
I had been asking The Man upstairs for a miracle. I didn't know what. Just a
miracle. Because that's what I thought it would take, nothing short. I won't go
into all the last nine years of sorted details, suffice to say however, it's been
hell. I know this sounds silly as H but if the drug culture/demon, problem,
whatever you want to call it, could be packaged into a human soul, I swear I
would offer my life to take it on, ME and IT, alone, loser to be evicted from the
face of the earth and mankind...forever. I would. I hate it. The damage it has done to individuals, families, communities and American culture is beyond human scope. And our lousy, scum-sucking politicians just go about their merry
ways. Anyway...
Another month has passed and he hasn't gone in yet. The Corps won't take
him as he has only a GED and a minor record. But the Army will. The paperwork
has begun and Adam claims he's trying to remove the last charge from the
record that would enable him to get clearance to join. I've talked to recruiters
and have helped and encouraged all I can. But I just don't know.
Like Stunt wrote about earlier...""I will lie and cheat and steal from ya cause
I'm a FXXKEN junkie; remember that!"
But I'd rather forget.
