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August 21  email, John Young, Waco Tribune-Herald

I don’t think you understand me yet.  I’m not interrupting your job by writing the most vital insights that the nation can read.  Publishing my essays is not optional for any true editor.  You’re already in the shit, John, because you’re already in my book, in the hands of publishers and Congress, headed for the headlines and the Hill.

I don’t mince words, I don’t back down, and I don’t respect titles.  I believe that you have looked into my eyes and seen as much, but I’ll prove it by appending the chapter you’ve already merited in my book before the op-ed.  Sorry I didn’t get it to you, but you were in a hurry to get away from me once you figured out that I was telling the truth about things too heavy for you to bear.  Get some more backbone, John, and let’s see if you can’t get an attaboy letter in this manuscript for doing your duty.

Read your letter.  Publish my op-ed.  Call me to confirm.  You are sitting under the sword of Damocles, and I put it there because you were in the wrong place working for the wrong side.

Captain May

 

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