THIS DIARY IS THE STORY OF TWO SOLDIERS, friends brought together by chance of war, and how one of them died, and of the lies we sometimes tell to each other, and to ourselves.
MICHAEL FRANK had been born in Texas at the start of the seventies, but could have called himself a Mainer, Tennesseean, Washingtonian, South Dakotan, Montanan or even a Buckeye. His father was a Navy pilot for 10 years, then a dentist in the Air Force... so Michael moved wherever his dad was assigned.
And coming from a military family, and knowing little else but military life, it was probably inevitable that he go straight into the military as soon as he graduated high school in 1988. And military service was good to him: he spent his 4 years serving in Hawaii.
For the movie-star-handsome top athlete in the prime of life, it must have been paradise...
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