W. Cunningham

“There were no weapons of mass destruction. And we bombed them anyway.And, by the way he's destroyed the economy. He's squandered something in the neighborhood of a trillion dollars. It seems impossible to Tyler that that might not matter. It drives him insane.””

“The battery commander, Captain John W. Powell, had his right arm shot off.45 Udaunted by the loss of his limb, Powell later served with Grant at Vicksburg, and he wound up a major. After the war, the one-armed ex-soldier made the first trip down the turbulent Colorado River as well as many other exploring expeditions. Later he assisted in founding the U.S. Bureau of Ethnology, becoming its director in 1879. From 1881-1894, he was Director of the U. S. Geographical Survey. Powell died in 1902, at the age of sixty-eight, one of America’s most respected and esteemed scientists and explorers.””

“Emlyn shivers in the dark. She keeps on reading. A message from @ozkerwild, last month: I thought we had an understanding. No response from Janessa. Another from two weeks ago: You can’t keep me guessing like this. And finally, from eight days ago. Are we done? Janessa has responded to this final message from @ozkerwild, but her reply makes no sense: 44%N*679,1/114.W?42>17. It could have been a mistake, Emlyn thinks, a phone tossed in a handbag, keys pressed by accident.””