Hawaiian Escapade A Novel by Gerald Lee Gibson
Gerald Lee Gibson, the author of The Spell of the Shadowbrook Witch, Alien Odyssey, Prelude to Dawn, the Chronicles of Jude, and numerous short stories and poems, now presents “Hawaiian Escapade,” a story based upon his own true life adventures.
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Hawaiian Escapade is based upon a true story.
When I was a senior in high school and had turned eighteen years old I joined
the Naval Air Reserve. Soon afterwards, during recruit class at our
weekly meetings, I was talked into going on an unscheduled flight to Barber’s
Point in Oahu. With Homeland Security today, this would have been
impossible. In fact, not long after our caper, the navy cracked down on
misusing navy personnel transports. I waited this long to write for two
reasons: (1) many people didn’t believe my story; and (2) what we did was
against the law. Though I was ignorant of much of the technicalities,
my cohort wasn’t. He manufactured an elaborate story and, using
contacts (persons who knew his World War II hero father), he was able to get
us on two separate flights in order to reach the naval air base at Barber’s
Point. The principal characters in the book are Noel Bridger (myself)
and Bernie Suarez (also a fictional name.) Though the other characters
in the novel were also real life persons, their names are fictionalized too. |
