Zero Option

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to thank Colley and George of the excellent Blood Mountain Cabins for a perspective on the north Georgia mountains area, Jane from the Georgia DFACS for her insights on state orphanages, Del Ward and Cliff Chandler for their continuing media support of my work,’ Sandy, Aubrey, and Cathy for their very helpful first readings, and, as always, Carol Edwards for her excellent copy editing. While the names of the military organizations and facilities in this book are real, I have taken some extravagant literary liberties in describing them and their operating procedures in order to enhance the dramatic structure of, the story. Any resemblance of the characters in this book to real persons, civilian or military, is unintentional and entirely coincidental.

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