"Joey sure likes Bo." Jon remarked to Martha.

"Yeah he does. Bo is very protective of the younger kids. I don't know what happened over there but before he left, he hardly ever helped with the young ones." Martha laughed alittle at the memories of a younger Bo. "He was a wild one for sure. Both him and Luke could stir up a hornet's nest and get away with it. They could charm their way out of any trouble that they got themselves into." She picked up her glass of milk and finished the drink. "I kind of miss that. Never a dull minute with those two."

Bo and Luke were putting the fishing poles in the General while Joey played with his cars on the porch.

"Joey? You want to help me get some worms?" Joey ran up to Luke.

"Lu, shovel?"

"Go find it." Joey ran to the sand box that Jesse had made for Ezra when he was younger. He picked out a blue plastic shovel and ran back to Luke. Together they went to the small vegetable garden and Joey dug alittle hole.

"There's one." Luke pointed to a large night crawler. Joey picked it up and placed it into Luke's hand, than Luke placed into a little container. This continued for five minutes.

"We have enough. Ready to go fishin', Joey?" Joey nodded his head and stood up. Luke brushed off Joey's pants and they walked back to Bo who was waiting by the General.

When all the kids were gone, Martha turned to Ezra and Jon.

"I need to lay down for a bit."

"You okay, ma?"

"Yeah, hon. I'm fine, just tired is all." As Martha walked to her bedroom, Ezra turned to Jon and asked. "You want to help me clean the cabin?"

"Sure. I have off the next couple of days." Ezra and Jon left to clean the cabin, they came back shortly before dinner.

After dinner was done, the older kids finished up the chores around the farm, while Jesse checked on the crops. The younger kids were in the house helping Martha. While Bo was on the porch with Ezra and Jon, drinking a beer and talking.

"You said you couldn't use a gun to hunt. Why not?"

"When we got back from 'Nam I had a hard time of it, you know?" Bo replied to Jon's question as he leaned against the porch rail.

"I think I do."

"I'd often see things that weren't there. They're like shadows. We was out hunting, heard Luke shoot at a deer. Freaked out, don't know what happened. Next thing I know, I woke up with Luke on top of me, pinning me down." Bo took another sip of his beer as he continued to look over the farm yard. "On the 4th of July I had a flashback because the fireworks sound like incoming motor rounds."

"We'll watch them from the back 40 now. Safer that way." Luke stated as he walked up behind them with more beer.

"Do you still see things that aren't there? Shadows?" Jon asked. Bo remained silent for several minutes.

"You some kind of shrink or something?"

"I have experience in that field." Bo looked at him than at Ezra and Luke before he replied.

"It's worse when it storms out." When Bo started to talk to Jon, Luke and Erza made their way into the house.

"Three months into my tour, we came across a village that was deemed safe two days earlier. As we were approaching, I senced something was wrong so I ordered the men to stop. I climbed a tree and looked through the scope. A little girl came running up to us, which never happened before. The kids always stayed by their mothers, safer that way. As she was running I shot to the left of her. When she stopped the wind blew open her coat and we saw that she had a Claymore mine strapped to her. Everyone took cover, no one in my unit got hurt but seeing her die like that..." Bo didn't finish his sentance.

"I think I understand."

"Were you over there?"

"No. My brother was a pilot there." Bo nodded.

"What happened to the people in the village?"

"What the hell do you think happened!?" Bo raised his voice. "The V.C. killed every last one of them! Kept the girl alive to use her as bait to kill as many of us as they could. They didn't get the chance, I killed over 30 of them s.o.b.'s before they could kill my men! Ended up getting shot 3 times, than I fell out of the damn tree. We killed everyone we saw than we burned the village and bombed the enterance to the tunnels before we left."

When Martha heard Bo raise his voice at Jon, she walked to the door to see if everything was okay. She heard everything Bo told Jon, so did Luke and Ezra. Martha looked at Luke and he shook his head.

"I had no idea that had happened." Luke told them. "A guy in his unit told me that Bo had gotten a field promotion for saving his men. Bo never told me what had happened."

Bo finished his beer than grabbed another one.

"The V.C. used kids as bait." Bo whispered.

"Bo, I'm sorry." When Bo remained silent, Jon gave up talking to him as the older boys came running from the barn.

"Get all the chores done?"

"Yeah. Bo, if ma says it's okay with her, can me and Vincent take the Jeep and go fishin'?"

"Remember the rules?"

"No speedin' or horsin' around behind the wheel."

"Go ask." When Jake came back out, Bo had the keys dangling from his fingers.

"Back before dark."

"Thanks, Bo." As Jake and Vincent ran to the Jeep with their fishing poles, Jesse came in from the fields.

"Hey, Bo. They goin' fishin'?"

"Ma said it was okay. I gave them 'till dark."

"Thanks, son." Jesse patted his shoulder before asking him. "You and Luke going out tonight?"

"Yes, sir." Bo grinned because he knew Jon had no idea on what Jesse was refering to. At least Bo thought he didn't know what they were talking about. Several hours later Bo and Luke returned from their run, 30 minutes after they got home the revenuers showed up.