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The month of June was a bonanza for this writer. My church, my local paper, and my VFW post all were eager to print my patriotic, short story, "Beyond The Call." I figured it didn't get much better than this, but it did. In the week before the Fourth of July, an editor with the Hernando branch of the St. Petersburg Times called me, saying someone from my VFW post had given him a copy of my story. He asked to print it. I agreed, of course, and asked for the name of the member who had been kind enough to pass along the story. I was given the name, but I didn't know the man. We were members of the same post in Ridge Manor, Florida, but with my living in Ellijay, Georgia, I was seldom able to attend a meeting. But even if I didn't know this individual, I was sure my brother did. I called him and explained that I had just spoken with an editor with the Hernando branch of the St. Petersburg Times, and he had received a copy of my story from one of the members of our VFW post. I repeated the name given to me.