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RE: Day 686: 5 Minute Freewrite: Friday - Prompt: a break for us all
So, Captain Lee owes his success to Vanessa and Victor Morton. It is sad to hear that Lee's wife died at a young age. I am soooo far behind on this story and have missed reading it. Well done! : )
Yep ... the story starts all the way back in Black, White, and RED All Over part 12, in which Captain Hamilton goes deep background on Captain Lee and Captain Bragg about a quarter of the way into the account... in high school, boyhood Bragg bullied young Miss Morton because she was too smart, too cute, and too Black to be on track to be valedictorian and graduate a year early at that. Boyhood Lee wasn't having it and took down boyhood Bragg's entire gang, 30 years before he worked with his cousin Captain Hamilton of the final takedown recorded in the longer tale ... but, read between the lines in rural Virginia, and you can understand how the stress for the Mortons increased and the move became necessary.
It will come out in a later tale how boyhood Lee pulled all that off... he owes his success in the wider world to the Mortons, but his foundation comes from his Lee grandparents who raised him in the Blue Ridge (see the "Mountain Peak" and "Eagle Feather" freewrites from a few days ago) and a large inheritance from his wealthy Slocum-Lofton mother. Minus the Mortons, Captain Lee probably would have been a well-off mountain man, living his whole life up and down the Blue Ridge and the rest of the Appalachians like his Lee grandfather ... and, he may yet retire to that fate. But, in terms of the world, the Mortons represent for Captain Lee what Black people represent in their labor and genius to the United States of America: the getting across of the gap to greatness in multiple ways.
Hooray for boyhood Lee! I don't know how you can think of these things when you write. I have no imagination at all and I just write for fun. You are an amazing writer. : )