The Man Who Lived in the Cemetery Part 6

Part 6

J’s childhood friend’s father served in Vietnam in the sixties. 

He never talked about it, though J’s childhood friend remembered that when they went camping in the early 1970s and the truck with the mosquito-killing fog came around his dad would make the whole family get in the station wagon and roll up the windows until it passed and the fog cleared. 

J’s childhood friend’s father died in of leukemia in 1975. 

J’s childhood friend also remembered his father not liking the sound of helicopters.

Agent Orange got sprayed by helicopters and was linked to illnesses including leukemia so you can connect the dots.

None of these memories gave J’s self-esteem a shot in the arm so he discarded them like empty popcorn boxes and looked for a different headstone. 

Also he remembered to drink some water because it was still pretty hot.