Sunday, 12 July 2009

• Scavenger Hunt Doozywiggle :Four Brothers:

  There were four friends from the old neighborhood in the southside of town.  Karl Ober, Joey Sanders, Phillip McGill, and Mike Isengoll were their names.  These boys were all close in age, went to the same school.  They played on the same little league.  They went to the same church.  These boys belonged to the same scouting troup.  I high school they had all joing the marching band and the JROTC.  They had developed a fierce sense of community, patriotism, and fraternity.  These young men became known to everyone in the community as "The Four Brothers".

  After graduation with the Class of  '90, they entered into the Military, it was just prior to major American involvement in the first Gulf War.  It was honestly the first time these guys were to be seperated from each other for more than a week, if their families chose to go on holiday away from home.  They swore they would keep in touch.  After military service as Marines, after graduating from University, they were all coming home.  They would dust off their horns, gather at the old church, and march through the streets of town announcing that the Four Brothers were back to old friends and acquaintances.  They would then all go get a drink together at Joey's dad's bar.   

  During the war, Phillip's unit was pinned down by fire from the Republican Guard.  Phillip was killed by a piece of shrapnel from an incoming shell.  The whole town was in mourning.  Years went by though, and old wounds healed.  Joey, Karl, and Mike went on to college and then after their graduations kept their word.  They reunited at the old church.  The Four Brothers, minus the brother lost to the war, played their horns late into the night.
  

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