Soldier Hill — Chapter 1

Coming of age fiction honoring sacrifice

When the memorial for a fallen hero faces demolition, high school buddies devise a law-breaking scheme to save it. Will the boys succeed? If not, the sacrifice and memory of a Vietnam combat soldier will be lost forever. A teenage adventure set in the 1980s. ​A coming-of-age story about honor and sacrifice.

1.

The future touched down near the end of Eddie’s sophomore year in high school. More like it crash-landed if you asked Eddie. “Computers” was the top buzzword in 1986, not baseball, Van Halen, or muscle cars.

The school planned a new addition to brush up against the gym, and the scoop around campus was a computer lab with classes starting next fall.
It didn’t matter what the high school had in mind, this agenda would be off-limits to slackers named Eddie and his friends.

Computer science was serious business, and the high school wasn’t about to waste class time on students who preferred to skateboard through empty swimming pools than hit the books. The same hooligans who would rather goof-off and joke about detention counting as an after-school activity.

Steve Rooney, the local firebug, had bigger plans of his own. The school’s mad bomber already fusing an explosive device…