First day of Sobriety − 16 July, 2001
I got sober today.
2 days ago I had my last beer. It's funny that it was that. I had a Budweiser.
Funny why?
Well, I have always prided myself on a couple things. One, I know beer. I am a gourmet. That's denial speak for Alcoholic... Budweiser is not something that I would want to drink... But I got it to go do the second thing that makes my final choice of alcohol funny. I am fishing in the South China Sea off the coast of Okinawa Japan.
A couple days later I am taken into custody by the same Marines that used to call me sir...
I have no idea what is happening around me. There are all these people telling me all these things, that I have to do all these things, that I have all these consequences, and that I am completely screwed. All I know is that I don't want to loose my wife, and I can't drive.
See I got my ass in a sling. I'm a Lt in the Marines, I have a career to think about, and no idea what I am going to do without it. But most of all I know that I have no way to explain all this to my wife.
I'm going to be courts martialed, and there is nothing that I can do about this. I'm looking at Jail I think. That's bad. I'm an MP, and I put Marines in that Jail.
How am I going to get home, where are all my things....
I am taken to the base hostel for lack of a better term. little room, TV, bed, desk, and I am told not to go anywhere... You've been reassigned to Camp Services. I have no money, I have nothing. It's not because they took anything, it's because I never have money.
There's a group of kids in the halls, they're missionaries. They lend me 20 dollars so that I can call my wife with a phone card. It's going to be wonderful to hear her voice.
2 days ago I had my last beer. It's funny that it was that. I had a Budweiser.
Funny why?
Well, I have always prided myself on a couple things. One, I know beer. I am a gourmet. That's denial speak for Alcoholic... Budweiser is not something that I would want to drink... But I got it to go do the second thing that makes my final choice of alcohol funny. I am fishing in the South China Sea off the coast of Okinawa Japan.
A couple days later I am taken into custody by the same Marines that used to call me sir...
I have no idea what is happening around me. There are all these people telling me all these things, that I have to do all these things, that I have all these consequences, and that I am completely screwed. All I know is that I don't want to loose my wife, and I can't drive.
See I got my ass in a sling. I'm a Lt in the Marines, I have a career to think about, and no idea what I am going to do without it. But most of all I know that I have no way to explain all this to my wife.
I'm going to be courts martialed, and there is nothing that I can do about this. I'm looking at Jail I think. That's bad. I'm an MP, and I put Marines in that Jail.
How am I going to get home, where are all my things....
I am taken to the base hostel for lack of a better term. little room, TV, bed, desk, and I am told not to go anywhere... You've been reassigned to Camp Services. I have no money, I have nothing. It's not because they took anything, it's because I never have money.
There's a group of kids in the halls, they're missionaries. They lend me 20 dollars so that I can call my wife with a phone card. It's going to be wonderful to hear her voice.
Comments:
TakeTheCann0lis (January 24, 2007. 07:07pm)
Wow that's heavy! I'm ex navy