A Package at Gitmo: Jerome Brown and His Military Tour at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

by Paul Bouchard

Overview

Jerome Brown, twenty-two, is on his last tower guard duty at Camp Delta, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Like the other members of his Texas Army National Guard unit, Brown is looking forward to the end of his shift, especially since in less than twelve hours, his unit is slated to board a chartered plane and head back to Texas for their deactivation.

To kill time on an otherwise boring and mundane tower guard shift, Brown thinks about what he calls his Big Four: Should he leave the Army when his enlistment term ends in a couple of months? Should he convert to Islam like so many young African-American men do? Should he pop the question to his girlfriend, Tywanna?

And most important of all, what is in that package Tywanna said she sent to him, by DHL so that it would get there in time? Tywanna is his one and only; he loves her and her daughter, Danielle, more than anything. He can envision their life and their future together. And then Brown receives the package, and it changes everything. Theres no turning back, theres no do-over, and his life will never be the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781450241540
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	10/15/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	120
File size:	171 KB

About the Author

PAUL BOUCHARD is a lawyer in the Army JAG Corps. He is the author of Enlistment, A Package at Gitmo, The Boy Who Wanted to Be a Man, and the nonfiction works A Catholic Marries a Hindu and Lessons Learned. For more on Paul Bouchard, visit www.authorpaulbouchard.com.