Brian White:  

I was shot in the right leg in 1978 (never mess with another man's wife.....just kidding). Actually what happened was the "William Tell" living in the apartment beneath mine was showing off his newest rifle acquisition while drinking beer and who knows what else, when he claims the gun went off. At that precise moment I had one monster of a craving for a cigarette. Yeah, I know all about it. They're going to kill me but who lives forever? Anyway I'd put the smokes on a table to my right before moving the footrest up to watch the football game on TV. The cig.s were just out of reach. I moved the footrest down which returned the chair to reaching distance, grabbed the pack, removed one, lit it, put the pack and lighter back on the twble when BAM! I was shot, shattering my femur bone. Well I healed, that idiot had less cash than commen sense (lawyers will appreciate the understanding), and thirty-some years later it has returned in the form of degenerating disks from years of walking on an "altered" leg, and a bad knee noy eligible for replacement. Boo-hoo and all that I know. Prior to my health challenges, I did have a successful career in sales, yet I was never really happy. Then while watching the news reporting about the terrorist attacks on New York and Virginia on September 11th 2001 and all the follow-up reporting, I watched as an Afghan woman was marched in fro...Expand for more