Chapter 1
CHAPTER 1   As things turned out, after our escape from the village Communist thugs, Dad fixed up Schultz's old p ...

Chapter 2
There it was. They had me. I took a deep breath and prepared to step forward. Behind me, I heard a tearful David shout, “Y ...

Chapter 3
The foreman appeared to be near tears. He whined, “If I let you do this and if you fail, then I’m still in trouble a ...

Chapter 4
We worked for the redhead for a couple of weeks bricking his three-story building. When we were through, he took us to the Brick ...

Chapter 5
We five in the work brigade cheered again at the end of that work day when the foremen were standing at the project exit gate. w ...

Chapter 6
I told the brigade about the conversation.Erwin said. “Interesting response to an interesting offer. You should have let h ...

Chapter 7
We got the job bricking the ornate Intelligence building. The unusual thing about that job was that the exterior brick was about ...

Chapter 8
We went back to our apartment that evening, and we talked about Bill’s offer. We sat down in the kitchen. Erwin asked ...

Chapter 9
Just like always, we arrived at work before any of the others. We walked through the gate as usual. We waved, “Hello&rdquo ...

Chapter 10
We tried to act casually. As we walked through the gate to the project site. We waved good morning to the gate guard with shaky ...

Chapter 11
When we arrived at the apartment, we took the plans out of our pants legs. We locked the doors and we closed the window curtains ...

Chapter 12
We finished the Intelligence center ahead of schedule, despite the delay caused updating the architectural drawings. We never kn ...

Chapter 13
Finding work outside of the Russian Ruble fueled Government projects was not easy. We did find a few jobs bricking homes, but th ...

Chapter 14
Our work was nearly finished at the old home that was being remodeled after the war. We stood out in the street looking at the w ...

Chapter 15
The casket was soft, but the road was rough. I was jerked from one end of the thing to the other. My body was pushed from one si ...

Chapter 16
After we arrived at the airport in Hanover, we departed from the plane together, and we entered the terminal together. The man w ...

Chapter 17
I remembered that in school in Germany, we had studied Greek mythology. We studied Apollo and how the Greeks sought his chariot ...

Chapter 18
 While I worked on the hotel, I watched the other bricklayers to find out who among them were quality brick masons. I knew ...

Chapter 19
On the jukebox, Roy Orbison was singing “Only The Lonely.” Jerry Lee Lewis was singing about shaking, Ricky Nelson w ...

Chapter 20
Patricia and I met at the club Friday night and Saturday night. On Saturday, when Patricia and I saw pictures of Buddy on the wa ...

Epilogue
Whenever Manfred and I would meet to discuss his life’s story, we would talk about what he wanted done, and he would hand ...

Author Biography
The author, Larry Thompson, is a retired educator, and is also retired from the military, living in Lubbock, Texas with his wife ...