Montgomery Atkinson:  

Its a long story and I always hated English, diagramming the sentences and such so if U R reading this I hope U'll forgive me for my short comings. OK here goes. I was born Illegitimate in Seattle at Harborview Apr 22 53. My mother got married and we moved to Auburn. My oldest memories are of going to Kindergarten in Auburn in what is now the Senior Center. My Stepfather adopted my brother and me so we ended up with the same last name Gwaltney. My stepfather was an abusive raging alcholic so my brother and I pretty much lived in constant fear. The worst was the weekends when he wanted to sleep in, if we made any noise that he heard we were in big trouble. We lived this way until 7th Grade when our mother had finally had enough so she moved us too the outskirts of Sumner so we had to change Schools. Anyone who's had to change schools probably knows how tramatic it is, too lose Ur friends and have too start all over. My mother met and married another abusive Drunk which started the whole cycle all over again. The only good thing about him was that I got bigger than him and could defend myself. Not that I wanted too, I finally realized that the Army and Viet Naam would be a better place to be rather than the situation I was in. I got my Mother to sign for me so I spent my seventeenth birthday in the Induction Center in Seattle. Then I went through Basic at Ft Lewis and further training at Ft Monmouth NJ then went to Naam which is what I thought I wanted at the time. It didn't take long too realize that the Officers in charge didn't give a damn about the Troops. Being an American didn't give yo...Expand for more