Meet Richard (page 2)

March of the following year I was drafted. Because of my police training I was sent to the 502nd Military Police Company at Fort Hood, Texas. I started working patrols inside the fort. Later I worked plain cloths as a Provost Marshal Investigator.



For a while I worked as a carpenter framing houses. I always meant to write a book, but I never got that chance until I had an accident. I was on a ladder working on a home when the ladder fell and my right arm went through a plate glass window. I cut open my wrist, and severed a tendon. I had surgery to repair my arm and was put in a splint for two months. During that time I played around with a typewriter and wrote a few stories about scuba diving. I sold these stories to Skin Diver Magazine. This early success encouraged me to write more. Here was my chance to finally write that book!