Chapter 2

After setting up my computer, I went and changed my clothes to a pair of jeans, and undershirt, a holster to hold my .45 caliber handgun, I put on a flannel shirt. Then since I do live in England I put on a jacket and a hat, got in my hummer, and drove down to the police station to press the charges against the guys that tried to attack me.

When I arrived at the station I walked in and asked the secretary where I could find the chief. After finding him and having a talk with him and telling him that I would like to press charges against them, he laughed and said, "You sent them to the hospital, they should be pressing charges against you. You don't even have a reason why you assaulted them."

My response was not so violent as it was sudden. Standing up and making the chair I was sitting in go flying against the wall behind me, I grabbed my cell phone and said, "Would you like to talk to the President of the United States of America?"

He laughed, Dialing the number that I had memorized I waited until I heard a hello on the other end. I asked the voice, "Sir, I am currently trying to press charges against some men that tried to harm me after I had to punch one of them to let go of one of my neighbors. Would you like to tell this police chief who I am and that he should co-operate with me?"

His response was, "I would love to tell him who you are."

Handing the phone over to the police chief, he suddenly stood up saying onto the phone, "I highly doubt that you are the president of the U.S.A. and even if you where you have no legal authority in England. Grabbing the phone from him I pressed as butting that turned the call into a video call, then I asked the president if he would like for me to add the prime minister of England to the call, after getting his response of, "no we do not want to scare him that much." I handed the phone to the police chief. After a minute of him saying nothing he said, "Right I will make sure the Colonel is pressing assault charges against these men. Right okay." Handing the phone to me he quicken called his secretary to have his officers bring the men that were in the hospital to be emedeatly put into prison without a trial.

Two months later...

After loading up my hummers back seats with presents I drove home and started to wrap them for Christmas. When I was done I went to the phone and called Minx's house and asked her if she was busy tomorrow, when she said that she would only be opening presents I asked her If she and Krism would like come over to my house and have a bit of scotch. Ending the call after she gave me her answer I went had a shower, then went to bed. When I woke up at 8 am, I went and changed my clothes to a under shirt, jeans, and a flannel shirt I went outside to fo chop wood for my fireplace. After a while I loaded up a wheel barrow and piled them under my back porch overhang.

When I walked inside to build up the fire I heard the doorbell ring, I quickly got up and walked over to the door. After opening it and letting Minx and Krism inside I said, "I think that someone left some things under the tree for you guys." Smiling I went into the kitchen to grab some scotch and some mugs I walked over to my recliner and sat down. When Minx opened her first present and saw that it was a 26" moniter, she squealed and asked me, "Why did you do this you did not need to."

After thinking for a minute I said, "Thats what friends are for."

And besides I wanted to be nice and get her something that she would be using.

"Oh I almost forgot one thing." Reaching into the front pocket of my shirt I withdrew two small boxes, when I handed them out I said, "Well what are you waiting for, or do you not want one more gift."

I knew that they would not know that I had earned the medals, I felt happy that they would be seen by someone else besides me on a daily basis. Especially since I had gotten word from the Prime Minister of England that he wanted me do some special operations. When they unwrapped the presents and opened the boxes and saw the blue cloth and some bit of metal Minx asked, "What are these?"

As expecting so I said, "There should be a engraved bit on the metal, that will tell you all you need to know. Oh also there is one of my dog-tags from each of the different parts of the American military, since you get two dog-tags for each section you serve in, I had six so each of you get three."

When Krism looked at the metal on the blue cloth and read the engraved words she dropped the Medal of Honor and said, "Oh my God. I cannot believe this."

Minx said, "What?"

Then she read the medal too and said, "You earned these and never told us? Why?"

My response was, "Because I did not think that it was important at the time, and besides I never look at them, might as well give you each one since I got three of 'em. Quietly Krism picked up the metal and said, "You should keep these, you did earn them."

Not wanting to be rude to my friends I said, "I never look at them, in fact I hate looking at them because they remind me of the bad times I had in Afghanistan, especially since I lost one of the most important people in my life over there."

Caching them off guard with my sentence I said, "Besides might as well let my friends have them, my true friends that never knew something like that about me. Let me tell you a story, when I earned those medals, old friends of mine that I had not talked to since middle school called me up and wanted to be friends again. And people that I knew and would not have expected them to ask me if I would be their friend, I knew people would do that sort of a thing. So my solution was to move to England where I have always wanted to live especially since one of the people that I served with wanted to also live here. And ever since then I have been trying to hide who I am from the public."

As a reply from Minx she said, "So you moved here to get away from the people that only wanted money or fame and wanted to use you to get that. Then after we became friends for who you are and not for what you did you decided that we were true friends and that we deserve these medals that you earned?"

Saying only loud enough to be heard in the room I said, "Yep I figured that if I were to make friends that would not know that about me that they would not try to mooch off of what I have."

Then I went and placed down th mugs and asked them, "Care for some Scotch?"