A Package at Gitmo

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.<p>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 convertto Islam like so many young African-American men do? Should he pop the question to his girlfriend Tywanna?<p>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. Hecan envision their life and their future together. And then Brown receives the package and it changes everything. There's no turning backthere's no do-over and his life will never be the same.