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Their gaze locked on to each other for some immeasurable amount of time. It felt like an eternity, a happy eternity swimming in one another’s eyes.
“So,” she finally said in a feeble voice, “I heard people calling me your wife. Is that what you told them?”
He smiled softly down at her. “No, ma’am. They just looked at us and assumed.”
“I like the idea,” She said.
“Well, then, we’ll have to see if the troopers can get you a new name tag once you are out of here. Mrs. Johnson.”
Epilogue
The other accomplices involved in the attempted WMD attack on the Alaskan water supply were rounded up in a fast operation that was significantly aided by the assistance of Choi Ki Pyun. In reward for his assistance, Mr. Choi was given a new name, a safe place to live, and a full scholarship to MIT on the condition that he keep himself available to the service of the US government as deemed necessary.
The McGill farmhouse and their entire homestead, was purchased for a rather generous sum by the US government with the official justification of performing riverbed soils research. With the money, the McGills bought a new farm in the area of Willow, and were able to save enough to pay for their daughter’s college education at a prestigious Ivy League university. The girl would later go on to a graduate degree in the study of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and counseling of accident victims.
Marcus and Lonnie married eight months later on a beautiful summer day. The ceremony was held on the lawn of Lonnie’s house with the Chena River running in the background. They spent a two-week honeymoon in a chalet on the island nation of Bora Bora in the South Pacific, after which they returned to settle in Fairbanks, where Lonnie was promoted to trooper lieutenant. Marcus became a highly sought-after wilderness guide. He used his cabin in Salt Jacket as the staging area for numerous successful hunting and photography expeditions with visiting executives and dignitaries.
Kim Cho Pil was convicted of espionage and terrorist activity with the intent to use weapons of mass destruction. He was to be sent to Guantanamo Bay to await trial, but while in jail on the Fort Wainwright Army Post, he died of a heart attack. His death was reported by the evening janitor who found his body while cleaning up a mess left by a drunk in the cellblock in which Mr. Kim had been staying under Army guard. The janitor, Joseph Chun, a middle-aged Korean immigrant, had attempted CPR with the assistance of the military policeman on duty, the son of another Korean immigrant, a church elder who owned a small cobbler shop in the city of Fairbanks.
Charlie Bannock finally met a nice woman with whom he was able to talk without losing his mind. They got married, and had five kids before he was fifty.
Wasner and his men continued to do what SEALs do, and that is still classified.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Epilogue