Forty Years on a Hook by Privateer Pastor Peter Christian Romanowsky Chapter/The Sausalito Military Man Marine

One day or night and Dunphy Park after my unexpected and unwanted divorce and was forced to live full-time alone on my boat and on the waterfront of Sausalito, anchored out and not in a harbor or boat slip, for some time and that only lasted 3 years and while in the park I met a Vietnam veteran/ Marine. His first impression on me was brutal gruesome bullish and somewhat demented with PTS and said that he had killed 12 people in Colorado in Vietnam and he looked down on draft Dodgers, hippies and non-military people who haven't served their country and especially in Vietnam in a combat role like he was involved with and approached me like I was some type of draft dodging hippie and he couldn't get that out of his mind, no matter what I told him and how I was given a 4F, buy the draft board in Oakland with no explanation except I told them that I had just got licensed as a Baptist minister, in a major denomination called The General Baptist Church of which is the opposite of the Southern Baptist Church and when I received my papers denying me, I noticed in carbon or because of carbon paper something was written on my paper about being arrested for marijuana as a teenager, for possessing or being with someone possessing one ounce of marijuana, when it was a felony to even have three seeds. Apparently the one who sent me the paper wanted me to see the carbon riding that bled through from a top paper that had that information on it and the arrest history of a minor is forbidden to see, except by the federal government and in an ironic Twist of fate for not only  being licensed by the Elders of the Central Committee of the General Baptist Church in California, helped me not to get drafted, but the marijuana charge as minor also tip helped the scale. For they did not want people with drug problems in the military and especially at this time, while the war was winding down, in the late sixties and Vietnam soldiers were having serious problems with drugs in Vietnam and dealing and sending drugs back to America in coffins and body bags and but probably also involved theft of government property and I try to explain these things to the military man and he acted as though his mind was made up and don't confuse me with the facts. This is how the PTS syndrome affected him, by making him antisocial and sociopathic tendencies, Complicated by paranoia and has had to go to the VA Hospital in San Francisco and quite often when he's in the Bay Area and when he's not traveling around like in Tahoe for instance or Reno or even Florida?                     This pattern of aggressive behavior and demeaning comments to those who did not serve in Vietnam for instance like he did as a Marine and treated everybody else like lazy draft dodging hippies. He has never been known to my regulation of beating anyone up except a police officer in Sausalito and is ready to fight them also and when they find out that he's a combat Marine vet and suffering from PTS, they give him a break for many police officers also, served in Vietnam and understood his state of mind and Trauma and after all right after the war they just shipped everybody home without, deprogramming them, from their military training, in boot camp and actual battle Warfare.                                                                         So my first encounter with the military man was of pent up progression of which again I can't recall him actually ever assaulting any of the waterfront or anchor out community on Richardson Bay/ San Francisco Bay and he also worked for and partnered with a man that he claimed had 30 or more houseboats or boats converted to being lived aboard and rented and stayed busy with him and probably took him along to collect rent from the votes that he had salvaged or bought and rented. As the military man the Waterfront and Anchorage of Sausalito on San Francisco Bay, he would eventually come and go and disappear and the fear over long periods of time and it has been a long time since I've heard from the military man and when I do see him he's always up to edgy tricks like when he's broke of which he usually is when he shows back up and the San Francisco Bay area and specifically Sausalito and the Veterans Hospital in San Francisco of which he goes to regularly for his PTS syndromes for he doesn't complain about any physical problems or reasons to go to Veterans Hospital and so I assume from my observation and reasoning and deduction that that is why he returns to San Francisco and Sausalito and especially after spending all his money and is broke and is trying to make money when he's in town and one cheap way is to do what I call a Ripon scheme. It's a word I coined after my divorce and transformation from a middle the class lifestyle, with the fringe benefits of marrying into a wealthy and Powerful family, of which turned against me and when forced to move on to the Waterfront of socio and the Anchorage in my 30 foot marine plywood sailboat, with a leak that I could never stop and the 20 years on more that I lived on it and it finally had so much dry rot that it sank one stormy night without me on it. So when I was forced to live in soft people full time people started giving me stuff and one person in particular I remember a nice and harmless homeless man and he would give me something that I didn't need and almost insist or force me to take it and then would ask me for money so to speak and that is what I call a Ripon scam. Where someone will give you something and it will have strings attached and it's not really a gift but a way to panhandle and some can get aggressive like the military man and one time yeah threatened to dislocate my thumb if I didn't buy some used jeans that he had salvaged and he was so insistent that as a symbol I put him in a trash can next to me and trying to tell him that I didn't need those pants and simultaneously he would be trying to Jack me up for money.