The Department of Defense needed to get away

The Department of Defense needed to get away from the controversial drone program. What they needed was solo armored divisions. They needed Combat Segways, and we were ready.

Our sources in intelligence indicated the possibility of covert operations happening on the 4th of July. We decided to pilot test the Combat Segways at the Miss Firecracker pageant

while under the influence of the extra pallets of LSD leftover from the intelligence agency's last research debacle. We had Combat Segways, fireworks and huge chunks of LSD

Were kept by followers of the Merry Pranksters. Ken Kesey himself prepared acid tests daily and took delight in seeing people get high. It was a whole new universe out there now.

I remember that July 4th 1982 when I went into my room & my roommate, Ken Kesey, took one look at me & said, "I don't know what you are on but I want some NOW!" The FBI was watchin

us like a hawk, so I couldn't slip anything to him. But I still got the bliss. Ken Kessey just watched me and waited for the FBI to leave us alone. 20 years later, they're still

knocking down my door once a year, always in July. I don't know why the FBI would assume I still have the drugs I purchased 20 years ago, but they haven't stopped trying yet.

It's not like it was my fault that I bought them anyway. Sharon just wanted to have a wild time and I had to get them for her like a good dog. Sighing, I watched the FBI approach.

I scampered under the bench and sat quietly as the FBI people sat down to question her, their shiny black shoes glinting in the light. In spite of myself, I felt a growl rise in my

throat. Nope, just a burp. Thank God no one heard me. As the FBI prattled on I couldn't help but drift away to the past...oh those misty water-colored memories of the way we were.