War Stories

  I got to here a lot of war stories in prison, in fact prison it self is war zone that never ends. Sure there’s
peace every now and again, on the yard all you here is noise, yelling, swearing and that’s a normal daily life.
The quietness, that’s when you got to worry, looking over your shoulder, back to the wall. But I made it, I'm here free well sort of anyway. There was this guy I worked with for about 4 years in the kitchen, old man Cook. I have a lot of respect for him, he never talked about or mentioned why he was in prison but I found out on my own. Murder was his charge in 1967; he served in the military and did 3 tours in Vietnam. He gets drunk one night and kills 7 Native Americans (most people call them Indians), but they only found 3 bodies. Now his crime is not the reason why I respect him, in fact he should have never went to prison. He did something that any man would have done and for this he gets life in Federal Prison. The Feds and State Prison systems are very different State Prison you can get out early, real early you see it a lot on the news. Were in the Feds you don’t, you do at least 80% of your time, and he got turned down for parole before I was getting out of prison. Not everyone likes talking about Vietnam but he didn't mind talking to me about it, he always told me "Stay the fuck out of prison, don't fuck up and get yourself more time." He was the kind of guy, who liked war, fighting, it was like second nature to him. One day this youngster (think he was 18-20 years old) didn't mind his business and got cook heated, poor kid got fucked up, broken nose and jaw and a busted eye. I looked at his file while cook went to the whole well the stories were true bout Nam, it was all there even his charge.His family was attacked, now the one thing I can't stand as well as the convicts is rapist, child predators. All that stuff you see on TV. about them being the bad ass on the yard all bullshit there the ones who die first. That’s what happen to Cook 7 Natives raped his wife and daughter. Now what would you do if this happen to you?