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Front Street Auto

A good mechanic is hard to find

Pretty blonde mechanic put a hex on my carNow I can't drive it very long or farMy headlights have cataracts, need to be replacedGot shorts in the electrical that need to be tracedMy clock don't tick and the radio won't playI will just have to bring it in for another day

Fort Hood wasn't much different than Iraq had been. I laid awake listening to the war game's machine gun fire and loud explosions. Army helicopters hovered over my house because I lived next to the airfield. I was tired, my back twitched, my room was muggy and hot, and the noises…the noises. All three alarms were ringing and I was barely aware of them. They had been ringing for half an hour and the neighbor was joining th...