"To Save a Life?"
Written on November 16th, 2017
By Doctor Ricky 1024
<*>C.FanStory 2017<*>
(Based on True Events)
Cast of Characters:
Edward Smrkovsky
(My Dad)
Alexander Herve Valle
(My Grandson)
Florence Smrkovsky
(My Mom)
Jason Richard Smrkovsky
(My Son)
Dana Alyse Smrkovsky
(My Daughter)
Professor Eric Velde
*********1920**********
"My dad, Edward Smrkovsky, was born in Clarkston, Nebraska on 1920."
"The Son of a poor, dirt, farmer, they lived...
"Back then, a quiet and meanger life."
...
"Dad had a sister named Emily Ann who passed away at the age of only eight from what was called back then...
"The Blood Disease."
"Which is today knon as 'Leukemia.'
"He also had two brothers named Joseph and James."
"His mother's name was Mary and His dad's name was 'Vulcac."
"We're Czechs!"
...
"Dad graduated(with honors)
"From the small high school in Clarkston."
"A class of only sixteen."
He then, at the age of only sixteen, joined the U.S. Navy."
...
"Now his first hitch was during the Korean War."
"Previously, they had traveled the world on maneuvers on one of four Destroyers."
(The Wasp, The Hornet, the U.S.S. Fulton, and one other Destroyer which was not in my genealogy."
...
"His first mission was the Korean War."
(Also known as 'The Cold War!)
"And, since he was a Chief, of course, He did not seen any action but from the ship."
...
"The Army went onto land and because of 'The Cold War,' many returned with life-threatening disabilities from frozen limbs!"
Note:
"That war was never won just like the Vietnam War."
...
"Many years passed and then Edward was involved in what was known as...
'The Japanese Excursion.'
"Iwo Jima, JFK, Torture, the A-Bomb...
"The whole Shebang!"
"And, of course, again...
"He never saw any action except aboard the Wasp or Hornet."
"But soon...
"He would see action at the bottom of a bottle of booze!"
...
"Twenty-six years had passed and my Dad decided enough was enough."
"As Vietnam was approaching, He had done His last hitch on the 'U.S.S. Fulton' which did nucleur Explosions at sea!"
...
"After a Nervous Breakdown because he was not ready to come home to a family with a wife and four sons...
"He had no idea how to do that!"
"He left the 'Comforting Blanket' of war...

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"Dad's last hitch in the Navy was 1959 when we moved to Sewell, New Jersey."
(Which is in Western and Central New Jersey)
...
"The house was paid for by my grandfather Bill."
"Sorta, as a sort of gift but later I found out that it was because we were behind on the mortgage!"
"You see...
"Dad, even though he worked, He spent a lot of his time and money drinking away everything!"
"And, that's where we are now!"
...
"The Fight for Life!"
(The Story of Edward Smrkovsky)
...
"Mommy, Mommy, Mommy!"
Yes Alex.
"Do you know what I want to do?"
What Alex?
"I want to build a Time Machine and go back in time!"
"I want to go all the way back to the Prehistoric Time and play with those dinosaurs!"
"That would be wonderful Alex."
Stated his mother Dana.
Approximate Word Count 549.
To be Continued later today!
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