Biker Broke Into Widow’s House at 3am and Ripped Her Floorboards Apart

“He was our commanding officer, ma’am. Him and Frank and me and a kid named Danny Ruiz were on a long range patrol in October of 1970. Danny was nineteen. From El Paso. Had a little sister he wrote to every week.”

Duke’s hands were shaking on the cassette tape.

“Holt was running heroin back to the States in bodies, Martha. In the caskets of dead Marines continue reading …