Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home: Pandemic

Pandemic (The Extinction Files Book 1)

A.G. Riddle

Chapter 6

Three blocks away, Desmond sat in the changing room of a secondhand thrift shop. Two outfits hung on the inside of the door, both Turkish-made and more casual than his button-up shirt and khakis.

When he slipped his pants off, what he saw took his breath away. Burn scars spread from his feet to his knees. The mottled flesh looked like creamy-white tree roots growing across his body. They were old scars, remnants of a horrible event. The feeling was unnerving - not being able to remember the fire that had torched his legs. He searched the rest of his body. Above his pelvis on the right side, he found a puckered, rounded scar below his ribs. A healed gunshot wound? Scattered around his torso and arms were smaller, straight scars where knife wounds had likely healed. In the hotel room, he had been so focused on the aching black and blue bruise on his left side that he hadn't noticed anything else. Now he longed to know where he'd come from, what sort of life he'd led - what sort of person he was. Or at least, had been.

As he stared at the floor, something inside the crumpled-up khaki pants caught his eye: a pink tag stapled to the garment's care instructions. He had seen similar tags before, only hours ago, attached to clear plastic bags hanging in rows... in the dry cleaner.

He had found the claim tag.

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From 4/4/2008 ( referenced in text below here ) To 4/5/2017 ( ) is 3288 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 11/3/1974 ( the Expo '74 Spokane Washington closes ) is 3288 days

From 3/13/1955 ( premiere US film "Dial Red O" ) To 8/14/2006 ( ) is 18782 days

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 4/5/2017 is 18782 days

From 6/2/2011 ( ) To 4/5/2017 is 2134 days

2134 = 1067 + 1067

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/4/1968 ( premiere US TV series episode "Star Trek"::"The Paradise Syndrome" ) is 1067 days

From 4/16/1959 ( premiere US TV series "The Lawless Years" ) To 4/5/2017 ( ) is 21174 days

21174 = 10587 + 10587

From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/28/1994 ( premiere US film "Stargate" ) is 10587 days

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Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 1:10 AM Thursday, June 02, 2011

United States Navy Cross 1995

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 1:10 AM Thursday, June 02, 2011 ]

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

4X01 - HE THAT BELIEVETH IN ME

ORIGINAL AIRDATE (SciFi): 04-APR-2008

(from internet transcript)

Kara, angry: I followed a heavy Raider into the storm. Took some hits, passed out. When I came to, I was orbiting this planet. Its yellow moon and star matches the description in Pythia. I took these pictures in orbit. The star patterns match what we saw in the Tomb of Athena.

Roslin: How did you get here?

Starbuck: I told you, I don't know exactly.

Roslin: Well, that's just not good enough, Captain.

posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M ( my public blog Homeless Veteran of Microsoft ) at 12:23 PM - Monday, August 14, 2006

Scars

Lately I have also started to understand that scars on my body are not what I remember.

There is the scar on my hand that I used to think was from scraping it on concrete one night when I was drunk and could not drive so I had to go through a bad neighborhood while walking to my apartment 7 miles away from the bar I had been at. I have started thinking that the reality is that I was tortured as a POW and the scar is from someone using a power drill on my hand.

The scar on my right wrist isn't the burn I recieved from someone dropping hot apple pie on it when I was a kid in a day care center, rather...I'm not really sure what it is. I have been thinking it is a shrapnel wound from anti-aircraft artillery. When I think of this I think of two scenes from two movies. One is that scene in "Memphis Belle" where the tomato soup container explodes and they wonder who was hit. The other is the scene in "Air America" where they talk about the "golden BB." I have been thinking lately that Mel Gibson is my older brother. And actually a third movie is from "Mission To Mars" where that one guy has a meteroid go through his hand and I wondered if it is common in space for meteroids to look like ball bearings.

The big scar on my lower left leg is not the bug bite I remember. Rather it is a bullet wound that would seem to have remarkably missed by a fraction of an inch from shattering the bone. Just above that is a diagonal scar that looks like a knife scar. As soon as I thought of that, I remember a memory of someone injured where my mother worked and that the skin had been sliced down the bone of her shin and I remember thinking of how that must have hurt. I think that was actually a deflection mechanism to get me to forget that it was actually my shin that happened to and it was actually from me or someone else using a knife to cut out the bullet.

There are several other scars that I think are bullet wounds and other injuries. I started thinking that a missile exploded near my aircraft one time, shattering the canopy and my helmet and I' not sure why I didn't crash as I must have had at least a concussion. I think another time I was shot in the back with a shotgun but I was wearing a bullet proof vest. I have been wondering too if I was hit in the chest one time when wearing a vest.

I don't know if it will be harder to relive those experiences again than it was to first experience them.

Other posts by me on this topic includes: http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/03/titanic-1997.html

http://www.tv.com/shows/battlestar-galactica/he-that-believeth-in-me-1167752/

tv.com

Battlestar Galactica Season 4 Episode 1

He That Believeth in Me

Aired Friday 10:00 PM Apr 04, 2008 on Syfy

AIRED: 4/4/08

http://hvom.blogspot.com/2017/12/excursion-stargate.html

Posted by Kerry Burgess

MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2017

Excursion: Stargate

from the private journal of Kerry Burgess: 04/04/08 8:02 PM
I had a very lucid dream just before I woke up that I was trying to catch an airline flight to some place. I might have been trying to go home but I cannot remember any details from the dream, other than what I describe that suggest I was going home. Even the one detail that does suggest that I was going home does not really have the kind of emotional attachment to it that I would describe as suggestive of going home. The dream started off with something about a group of Native Americans that I cannot remember enough detail about to articulate, other than I seemed to walk through of group of Native Americans that were walking some place. There are some other details that I also cannot fully articulate but that I can visualize somewhat and it seems I was out fishing in a lake with some relatives and I caught a fish and it seemed to the only one we had caught. Then I heard someone that I could see say to who ever was listening that we should not eat the fish out of that lake. It did not look very appetizing anyway and seemed to have bruises on it after it had been cleaned. The I was walking some where and that is when I seemed to be trying to catch the airline flight. There are some other details between there that I cannot remember now. I remember that I was carrying some luggage and also several items from the dry cleaners that I had just picked up. One of the items was slipping out the bundle because I did not have the hanger in my hand along with the others. Then I remember from the dream that I walked by Ron Howard as he was walking by me and he seemed to say to someone that I had not seen him or that I had not recognized him. Then I was still walking along through the city, which is vaguely familiar but I am not certain, and I was thinking to myself that I was going to miss the flight because I was running out of time. Then the thought occurred to me that it would not matter if I missed the flight because, due to the arrangements that had already been made, they would put me onto the next flight. This is now the second time the thought has occurred to me as I write this that I am beginning to forget important details from that dream I had just before I woke up in the past hour or so. Then I was in the airport and I was checking in but I am confused about the person who was checking my ticket. I cannot remember enough detail to say for certain but I might have walked behind the counter of a Starbucks and a woman there was checking me in for the flight. She looked at my ID and there is now something I have forgotten but she was saying something about my ID matches my military pension that was published in the paper and she was using a newspaper that I had brought along as the source and I was thinking that I was glad I had brought along a copy of that newspaper. I am not certain why details about me were printed on that newspaper. There was also some detail available to my mind at this point in the dream, and I do not know the source, where I can almost visualize the association with the Jupiter moon Callisto. But I cannot visualize the source of that phrase. I have to guess that the boarding desk had a sigh with something about the Jupiter moon Callisto as though that was the destination of the flight or it was the location I was departing. I think it was the location I was departing because I also have some vague sense of the date 11/28/1976 and I think that detail represents that I was departing the Jupiter moon Callisto for my flight back to Earth. I do not remember any other detail after that in the dream.

[ excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess MONDAY, DECEMBER 25, 2017 ]