sounds like you liked bob? i liked bob a lot. in 1995, bob and martha anne got married. and on holidays, bob s sister kathy got closer to martha anne. we would go out shopping, that was our big thanksgiving. bobby would stay home, the girls would just take off and go shopping. bob and martha anne retired in the late 90s, left florida, and bought a big secluded hillside cabin in east of tennessee in the shadow of the smoky mountains. not far from where martha anne grew up. a place where you could forget being a cop and all that violence. by then, shawn and jen had their own family and visited from time to time. bob especially. oh yeah. he would treat our kids great. he was fond of them? he was the real deal. martha anne went back to work, accounting job. she loved numbers. they made time for friends too,
swirl. like lies. there is gold in there, somewhere, so they say. chuck would go out with all these medals and he would go to a local high school and two veterans parades. he also re-connected with martha who had never dawned a military uniform in her life showed up at a veterans retreat and claimed that she too had rank and metals and combat experience, she showed off a purple heart. several of the attendees at this retreat particularly remember her talking about working at the pentagon being at the pentagon during that
benefit of the doubt, but at the time when i told my oldest sister what was going on, she said oh, there is more to the story. kathy still wanted answers about her brother s death but, you know how people can start to sound like broken records? i think why family, friends, probably everybody was tired of hearing me say this isn t right, i know something had to have happened. when martha ann found the time to respond to kathy, she told her she was imagining things. did she accuse your meddling? yeah. she said, your brother always said that you always had to get in people s business, you can never just let things lie. and i guess that was true. i don t stop until i find out. then she said, martha and got even more snippy. she literally told me i needed psychiatric help. i needed to get over the fact that my brother killed himself. i said, i will never, i will never believe that. kathy was in the only one getting the brush off from martha ann. remember how martha ann dec
and she said yes. and i said are you going to get married? and she said heavens no! though she was surprised, debbie wanted her good friend to be happy. and when the docked ship docked in mexico, they went shopping and went back to the liner and compare their treasures. i said, what did you guys get? and martha and said, you will just have to wait and see. very mysterious. and it was kind of fun. a few weeks after the cruise, and months after bob s death, martha ann invited debbie and her husband to lunch. she said i have something to show you. and i said to her, is this our
martha ann lost her husband. their coach misreading. they are helping them each other through. this there was something else. chuck said that he was not feeling good. she was having issues with her back. but may sense and would produce her tours at home. bob loved animals. but the menagerie was too much for martha and. so her son, shawn, helped her downsize. bob had an animal rescue in his home. he had seven dogs. a couple of cats, chickens, some goats. she started to get rid of all of these animals as soon as he had passed away. then there were other changes. weeks after bob s death, martha and invited debbie and her husband to celebrate chuck s birthday. dinner at chuck s place.