I Didn't Do It, Uncle Buddy! (Short Story) - 9/23/2016 6:48:04 AM
A good lesson. I'm sure glad that you spoke up and got your cousin off the hook. That was a lot of money in those days. I often relate that I shocked my parents when my good brother and I were picked up by the police for smoking and catching a smoldering fire in a building on our block. I was labeled a "firebug," after that.
Idleness does seem to get kids in trouble.
Ron
I Didn't Do It, Uncle Buddy! (Short Story) - 9/23/2016 12:20:32 AM
I enjoyed your true confession, fuzzy though some of those recollections were. I'm thinking if the shoes were on my feet, I'd feel so guilty I'd remember every detail down to the weather that day. Maybe subconsciously, you didn't want to dig up more than the money your father did from under the bushes.
Rite of Passage (Short Story) - 9/10/2016 12:48:49 PM
You certainly portrayed the title very well. And you revealed some of the things that fathers don't share with their sons that you had to find out for yourself. At least he was around for your entire life and didn't lose his life in that time when he had those tattoos placed on his skin for allegiance to his buddies and protection from what might come suddenly and deadly.
Quite poignant. Especially at the ending.
Ron
Rite of Passage (Short Story) - 9/10/2016 12:39:14 AM
Your dad wore his heart on his sleeve in the manner of tattoos on flesh, the canvas for his patriotism and self-sacrificing service to is country. You story has soul.
