He said it without inflection, and he didn't plan to elaborate much. Vietnam was both old news and still fresh for him, and other than his therapist he'd talked about it with no one other than his wife. Not even his mother knew most of it.
"I took the money from the GI Bill and put it in savings, then went to cop school and all that. That only lasted a couple of years, less time than I was overseas. I was tired of uniforms, I guess."
Virgil's big shoulders went up and down when he said it. If he told her what had happened to chase him off of the force, she'd think he was a lunatic. And it was mostly the truth anyway, he had been tired of uniforms. He still helped the community now, just in a different way.
"School's tough," he continued as they neared the buffet establishment. "Kids in my neighborhood didn't really go to college 'cause they had to get jobs instead. Without army benefits, I might not have gotten there myself."
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on 2014-04-04 12:21 am (UTC)He said it without inflection, and he didn't plan to elaborate much. Vietnam was both old news and still fresh for him, and other than his therapist he'd talked about it with no one other than his wife. Not even his mother knew most of it.
"I took the money from the GI Bill and put it in savings, then went to cop school and all that. That only lasted a couple of years, less time than I was overseas. I was tired of uniforms, I guess."
Virgil's big shoulders went up and down when he said it. If he told her what had happened to chase him off of the force, she'd think he was a lunatic. And it was mostly the truth anyway, he had been tired of uniforms. He still helped the community now, just in a different way.
"School's tough," he continued as they neared the buffet establishment. "Kids in my neighborhood didn't really go to college 'cause they had to get jobs instead. Without army benefits, I might not have gotten there myself."