Cucumbers Have Thorns and Snakes Love Strawberries ( a story of courage, faith and survival)

......soldier, father and husband Charles E. Sullivan is home on leave. The night heat is almost unbearable. He looks patiently out the window at the trees that are swaying back and forth in the wind. Rain the size of pebbles is pounding on the roof top as if begging to get in. This is not new to him; he has lived on the island that sits off the coast of Georgia most of his life. His two young children jump as the lightning that flashes across the sky is followed by a roaring thunder that s...