Sukelov ignored the small figure on the ground, knowing that the rifle's fire would do no damage but he stopped smiling when he saw the vapor trail from the M-72 as it launched its rocket. Forty years later, Dillard Ross looked out of the airliner's small window. The reflection showed an old man staring back at him, and he wondered why he couldn't see himself. With blue eyes and silver hair, the tanned face looked back at him and seemed to say,
Why are you doing this?
Suddenly called back into service and put on a plane to the Ukraine, Chief Warrant Officer Dillard Ross (Ret.) had to wonder how good this decision really was.
Jan R. McDonald
has over the past thirty years founded and managed several high-tech companies operating in the newspaper publishing industry. He has written dozens of articles for both print and Internet-based publications, and he has traveled extensively in Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, the U.S. and Mexico. He has written several fiction novels, a non-fiction short story, and several children's books. He is now retired and lives with his wife in Florida.For more information,
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