A Long Way to the Green Berets

Everything I owned once fit into trash bags in the back of my broken-down pickup truck—and it was a short bed truck. I basically got by on handouts from relatives. I had such poor coping skills. My emotional IQ was down in the single digits. I made decisions based on self, with little regard for others. I lacked the resolve to see goals to completion and, for that matter, was very haphazard about setting any. My relationships with the opposite sex centered on playing the field, with little or no feelings involved. I was unemployed and would not accept jobs I saw as “unmanly” or beneath me. Instead, I did without.