My Militia Group Summer Internship

I thought I was starting a résumé service

John Rambo — Yoni S.Hamenahem, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

I never intended to join a militia group. After my first year of college, I expected to spend the summer of 1981 dangling my whistle and yelling at sunburned kids to stop running on the pool deck — just like the previous summer.

Sadly, my cushy South Brunswick, New Jersey swim club lifeguard job was yanked…