Farewell PFC POLK

Richard Weirich

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CHAPTER I – ALL IN THE FAMILY
Nightmare on Capon Street – May 28, 1945

 

There was that dream again. Buddy sat up in his bed and looked around the room for more pictures like those still fresh on his mind. Black and gray images depicting deep emotions of sorrow, pain, shock and desperation. People he knew: crying, moaning, screaming. There were strangers among them: motionless, speechless, sad. And the hundreds of black flowers on a bed of stars, stripes, and brass buttons made him feel trapped, isolated, helpless, and afraid.

Slowly he awoke to the real world where there were encouraging signs that his life remained unchanged. Bright sunlight beamed from a window in a hallway casting a brilliant glow through the open door to his room. Just beyond the foot of his bed was a dresser and above it hung a mirror where he could see his reflection. A quick scan of the room revealed that everything was still in its place, just as it was.

“Time to rise and shine,” called his mother from the bottom of the stairs. “Don’t want to be late for your last day of school.”

9-year-old Charles Polk, Jr., nicknamed Buddy, was so consumed by his recurring nightmare that he had forgotten that this was the day to bid farewell to the Fourth Grade. But as he dressed, he still couldn’t get the nightmare out of his mind. Who was the kid playing with a toy cowboy and horse on the front porch? Too young to be him. Whose photograph was his mother holding against her chest while weeping uncontrollably? And who was that strange girl clutching her hand?

It was impossible to quietly navigate the narrow wooden stairway. The aging house on Capon Street was built before the Civil War and, aside from a coat of white paint and a new tin roof, little had changed since it was constructed. Buddy’s dad often joked that a burglar would never stand a chance in that old house. The creaking and shaking floors were better than any alarm system. That’s why Mable always knew when Buddy was ready for breakfast.

Farewell PFC POLK Description:

The Polk family faces their greatest tragedy and discovers that there is life after the painful loss of a child. (Based on a TRUE STORY)

When he was 9-years-old, Charlie Polk was plagued by a recurring nightmare. Ten years later it became a reality.

The official Marine Corps report claimed that PFC Charles Polk was accidentally shot and killed by his best friend, Eddie Johnson. But is that what actually happened? Does a best friend try to get his buddy fired from his job, force himself on his girlfriend, and then lie about how it happened?

Private Polk’s death left a string of broken hearts, all claiming to be the love of his life, but only one of them, Sally Duffy, had captured his heart. When she shows up at the funeral, the family is shocked to learn about the beloved Marine’s mystery girlfriend.

Of greater concern to the family was the condition of Charlie’s mother. Mable Polk had fallen into deep depression and lost the spiritual strength upon which the family had always relied. They were like a ship without a sail until faith was restored through an unlikely source.

Farewell PFC Polk begins in the winter of 1952 in a small town in northern Virginia and chronicles the story of Buddy Polk, from his senior year in high school to his service as a Military Policeman in the United States Marine Corps, his mysterious death on June 28, 1955, and how friends and family cope with the tragedy and ultimately rebuild their lives.

Life isn’t always fair and tragedies don’t always have happy endings. But where there is faith there is always hope.

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