Shit Happens
By
Ed Benjamin
You know as well as I do that Life Happens no matter what.
The key most people agree is what YOU DO WITH IT.
I have a character in my book, Redemption, Sam Ryan, who had the distinction of being the second youngest guest in the infamous Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi, North Vietnam during the Southeast Asia conflict. Known as the “Hanoi Hilton,” it’s the place where North Vietnam kept many American Prisoners of War (POWs).
As part of Sam’s back story, when Sam was the Captain of his High School football team, his coach used to egg the players on with the phrase, “Shit Happens, but life goes on.”
Sam adopted that phrase while he enlisted in the Air Force during boot camp and when he became a tail gunner on a B-52H strategic bomber dropping bombs over North Vietnam.
After his release from captivity, Sam limped due to an argument he had with a guard at the Hanoi Hilton – the guard won by smacking against Sam’s knee with a stick.
The Air Force assigned him to aircraft maintenance and Sam spent the remainder of his 30 years’ service fixing airplanes. All the maintenance people he supervised got to know the phrase, “Shit Happens, but life goes on.”
He used that phrase to egg them on to better performance fixing airplanes.
After Sam retired and opened a small automotive repair shop in the Hill Country of Texas, a friend talks Sam into trying to resurrect a devastated former Air Force TOP GUN fighter pilot who spiraled downward into an abyss of hopelessness and alcohol abuse.
Will Sam’s “Shit Happens, but life goes on” mantra help Harry to regain his soul? Or will something else happen?
Will Harry gain Redemption?
Well, I hope I have spiked your curiosity to find out.
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Ed
