Discovering Jack's Dark Past: The Truth About His Vietnam War Experiences The Story of Ann Chapter 8 Learning the Truth from Jack I borrowed Janet’s car to drive into town to get Jack. Susan had told me on the phone that he had been there since early afternoon. She explained to me that he just sits there drinking from a bottle of Jack Daniels. Susan also explained when she went to talk to him she did not understand his reply as it was not in English. “Ann, he keeps looking toward the door as if he is expecting someone and from the look in his eyes I think it is trouble he is expecting,” Susan said to me on the phone. “Take that bottle from him,” I replied to her into the phone. “I tried too but he just shook his head no at me when I did,” Susan said. I told her I would be right there. I drove into town not knowing what or who I was about to face. I hoped it was Jack. The man I was falling deeply in love with back then. However, I was not sure of his past or of him. It seemed that at one time during the Vietnam War he was a different man. He never had explained to me or to grandma about just falling off the face on the earth when he went to Vietnam. He had also done the same thing when he found out I had married Rick. Jack then suffered his wounds and it was almost a year before grandma heard from him. Where and what was he doing? I thought about Susan telling me he acted as if he was waiting for someone to come through the door at the bar. Those men called the Devils entered my mind along with Captain Bob’s words about Jack seeking revenge. …and then things took a turn
