Justification For Killing (9 page)

These people do not play
nicely.”

The Captain
continued to explain about SCAR’s construction of an alien inspired
machine called the
Mindtraveler
, oh yes the
Mindtraveler...

Forrest had used it
and remembered everything his Grandpa did while serving in Vietnam,
long before it evolved into the Viruchi War. He remembered it all,
every detail. How, one may wonder? He was there... not physically,
but mentally. Papa Scarburg and Grandpa’s secretive job intrigued
the sixteen-year-old Forrest. He began to play detective to see if
he could find out the mysteries surrounding the work they did. They
were acutely clandestine. He was an inquisitive young lad and
thought it his ‘mission’ to find out what they were hiding. While
exploring an old double-door steel safe of his Grandpa Captain
Scarburg that he had broken into, he stumbled upon a small gizmo
called the
Mindtraveler
. He later was told it was an alien inspired gadget that
alters the concept of the time and space continuum using only the
mind.

The apparatus was a small
device approximately six inches in length and hexagon shaped. It
was made of gold, platinum and silver and looked much like a
beautiful clock. An explanation of how it works cannot be
undertaken, actually, that would be pointless, no one knows exactly
how it works, but it is known it allows a person, through some type
of alien conceived technology, the ability to be mentally
transported to another place and time. Not physically mind you,
just mentally!!

The transported one will
be able to see, hear and smell all the events they are watching;
however, they are limited by the following caveats: they cannot
participate - they cannot talk - and the people they see cannot see
or communicate with them. They are merely an observer, nothing
more, a ghost like apparition floating in the viewed person’s midst
but totally invisible, and undetectable. The ‘transportee’, (at
that time, would have been Forrest), could not participate, speak
or involve himself in the events he witnessed. It mentally
transported him to Vietnam - he saw it all. He witnessed the entire
saga of his Grandpa Scarburg, Great-Grandpa Scarburg and Spook as
they rescued Tinker. He was right there watching when Sam Lin and
Si Lei helped them all escape from Cambodia into Thailand and
finally watched them return safely home.

Captain Scarburg
continued – “the
Mindtraveler
can only allow for mental transportation -
the
Timetraveler
can physically transport human beings through the fabric of
time. This time/space theoretical boundary supposedly separates
Universes, which run parallel to each other. Einstein was the one
who said, “time wasn’t a straight line with a beginning or an end
but was curved, so that the past, present and future were all
available at the same time - if we had a method to access each
particular segment” Using the
Mindtraveler
we can only observe
events but with the
Timetraveler
we believe we have “a method to access each
particular segment” of time and can finally prove if Einstein’s
concept of time is actually true. We believe we will be able to
interact with others in the time-period we visit. We gained this
knowledge from the alien documents Pop, Spook, Tinker and I brought
back from Cambodia. Sam and Si you both had a big hand in this
too.”

“
Okay,” said Gabby. “I
hear your words, but what does this mean?”

“
ARE YOU CRAZY?”

As Forrest sat
listening to Gabby, he had to agree with her. What was his Grandpa
trying to say? Was he suggesting they do something with the
new
Timetraveler
machine? The
Timetraveler
was designed to travel from one Parallel Universe
to another Parallel Universe. Forrest personally thought this could
be extremely dangerous for the first human, guinea pig. Was SCAR
even remotely close to being ready to attempt human transport,
Forrest questioned? He didn’t even know if Parallel Universes
existed. The only proof was in the alien documents and who knew if
they were correct? He did not want to bet someone’s life on
them.

Olive Marie had been
sitting quietly too, but with the mention of Parallel Universes she
perked up, “Grandpa, you know I am the youngest one here, and you
all already understand this concept, but what is a ‘Parallel
Universe’?”

“
Olive,
in simple terms a Parallel Universe is a theory stating entire
separate universes can be parallel, or running side by side or
simultaneously with our own, but they all share a common beginning.
Each event in every universe can be altered to generate another
path to yet another universe possibly the one we are in presently.
If someone knew the exact time a universe split, theoretically by
changing events at that very moment this split might not happen. We
have constructed the
Timetraveler
to try and prove this
theory...”

Before Grandpa could go
on, Forrest felt he had to say something... anything... he just
needed to sound intelligent. Speaking with as much authority as he
could muster he muttered, “Grandpa, this... new machine has never
been tested with... humans - are you trying to say you want someone
to travel back to the day of the Kennedy tragedy, in that...
that... gadget. We have tried to transport several things from the
launch site to different periods in the past, but I also understand
we don’t know if they ever arrived at their assigned destinations,
and we definitely have never been able to retrieve any of the...
the... time traveling machines, have we?”

Turning from his
board, Grandpa answered, “Yes, Forrest you are indeed correct, to a
point. We have sent three expeditions into the past, and yes, you
are also correct in saying we do not know if they arrived at their
destination. We certainly have never retrieved any of them, and you
asked if I wanted to send someone back in time to analyze the
shooting of JFK. I do not... I do not want to send
some
one
, I want
to send not one but a number of you here this
morning!!”

Gabby jumped to her feet
and yelled, “Grandpa! Are you crazy? We don’t even know if your
stu... stupid contraption will even work!”

“
Being
one of my two favorite granddaughters I am not going to take
offense to your remark,” he said smiling. “But I believe there is a
way to test the
Timetraveler
before we actually try to use it. And, by the
way, since it is my custom to nickname everything, I have renamed
the time machine
‘Pegasus’
, the famed flying horse of
Greek mythology, instead of calling it the
Timetraveler
. If
Pegasus
operates as it is intended,
I envision it will be like riding a beautiful winged, flying
stallion off into the sunset! Or, it could be more like riding a
lightning bolt! We will soon find out.”

“
Wait
just a cotton-picking minute! We? Who are the ‘
we
’ you are speaking of? Darn it
Grandpa do you have a rat in your pocket - I believe I speak for
everyone, WE are not going to get into your time traveling
Pegasus
contraption,”
exclaimed Gabby. Then emphatically added, “so don’t try to butter
us up, WE... ARE... NOT... GOING!”

“
Just hear me out Gabby.”
Turning back to his board, Grandpa said, “I noticed all of you were
reading my notes on the board. Let’s take a look at the information
I have written.”

Grabbing a laser pointer
Grandpa pointed to each item he had listed and explained briefly
their significance:

1. Attempted Assassin -
Lee Harvey Oswald.

2. Oswald was the lone
shooter, fired from Texas School Book Depository.

3. Official records -
three shots fired.

4. President wounded by a
lone assassin.

5. President Kennedy
received severe bullet wound to head and back.

6. Secret Service Agent
Hill wounded in back and survived.

7. Jack Ruby arrested
walking to Dallas police headquarters.

8. Severely hurt but after
months of recuperation President Kennedy survives.

9. Kennedy re-elected to a
second term in 1964.

10. Brother Robert Kennedy
was JFK’s vice president in 1964.

“
Does everyone agree those
are the historical facts of the attempted assassination of
President John F. Kennedy? The same facts found in our history
books, and taught in every school in America - right? I would like
for you to place your initials beside each statement you agree is
correct.”

“
Okay,
Grandpa right,” said Gabby, “we all know President Kennedy was
shot, severely wounded, but he survived and the rest of what you’ve
listed is true, so I’ll put my initials on your board, but what
does this have to do with anything? Especially about testing
that
Pegasus
alien gadget?”

“
You will see in a minute
Gabby, and it is not an alien gadget. Yes, we did use their
documents, blueprints and instructions, but we were the ones who
actually constructed the machine. It is not their gadget it is OUR
gadget.”

“
Grandpa, please explain
it to me again. This time in English,” said Gabby.

Chapter Seven

DEALY PLAZA, DALLAS
TEXAS

Destiny - ‘a preordained
set of events for a particular occurrence’ - is a funny phenomenon.
It can be set in motion or altered in a split second. The problem
is we do not know when such a moment is going to occur. On this
particular day, destiny’s clock began to tick at 12:30 p.m.
November 22, 1963; however, the paths of destiny sometime lead to
different destinations.

On this date, at exactly
12:30 President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was almost assassinated on
Elm Street. Elm is located on the north side of a grassy park known
as Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. Did you think a mistake
was made when the word ‘almost’ was used instead of ‘was’? Then you
would be correct it was ‘almost’ but it was no mistake - as known
from studying American history books the assassination did not
fail!! What? Then this must be wrong... is this a lie? Or is it a
twist of the truth? No, nothing of the sort, the murder of
President Kennedy was totally unsuccessful as the headline banner
in the Dallas Times Herald the next morning November 23, 1963
confirms:

JFK - ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT
FAILED

Texas Governor Also Wounded
By Assassin’s Bullet

The story about to be
revealed was true. True in every aspect, however, until now only
one side of the JFK tragedy was known, the story the world has
always taken as fact - the path of destiny, which ended with John
F. Kennedy being assassinated.

What is now going to be
revealed is another world, an alternate world, a parallel world in
which the road of destiny diverged on November 22, 1963. In this
world, President John Kennedy did survive the assassination
attempt, and this world is just as true as the present one. We
could be living in that other world today, thankfully we are not.
It is said: truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. How true this
is, how unbelievable true.

Einstein figured out
the physics concerning a phenomenon mere mortals just cannot grasp.
In fact, the more one thinks about it the more confusing it
becomes. He said time was not a straight line. Meaning it did not
start yesterday and will not end tomorrow. There’s something
remarkable about time - something Captain Scarburg and
Pegasus
will
discover.

If a person were aware
something was about to happen they could give a more precise
description of what just took place. Confusion, panic, fear would
all push a person’s mental faculties to the limit if the event were
spontaneous. This obviously happened on that fateful November day.
For now imagine what the United States and the rest of the world
would be like if the Assassin had not accomplished his mission. We
will not dwell on this but rather focus on the events of that
nearly cataclysmic day.

President Kennedy did not
survive the attempt on his life on November 22, 1963. The Captain
was there that eventful day!! What!! That can’t be right, but he
was and his personal involvement resulted in the assassination of
John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States of
America.

Robert Edward Scarburg,
Jr., better known as Captain Robert Scarburg, killed President John
F. Kennedy!!

A better explanation would
be - he allowed the President to be killed, rather than he
personally killed him. Killed implied direct involvement in the
murder. Captain Scarburg was no murderer; in fact if anything he
was a patriot of the highest order. Papa Scarburg was a hero of the
highest order also; in fact, he was awarded the Medal of Honor in
Vietnam. After understanding the Captain’s part in that account, it
will be self-evident if a Medal of Honor could be awarded to a
civilian, he would have been the recipient.