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    The Cave
    The Cave
    The Cave
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    The Cave

    By D. E. Harrison

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    In the Pacific war 1942, a Lieutenant Jones has orders to secure a cave before the main forces moves move up. He does so and then his orders are to resettle the islanders back on the island. He does so and leaves.
    After the war 1945, his last order is to check on the island’s people. There are few left, and he must remove them all to a better place before he is mustered out.
    Some 50 odd years later he dies and leaves a box to only his grandson. In the box are soil samples from the cave and more details on events that occurred with the people. His grandson finds the original packets used to record events of the war. The chairman and advisor for his degree feels he should continue for an advanced degree.
    The chairman wishes to have the many packets of handwritten history but settles for the cave. He funds an expedition to the island just north of Guam and south if Tinian. The natives will not approach the cave now or in the past. His school advisor Eli’eli has a tie to the chain of islands.
    In the cave are many unexplained items. The characters on the back wall, the melted droplets of limestone, and the black carbon silvers. Only a laser could have carved the characters. Few pictures were taken before the cave collapses. They leave the island with enough material for several degrees. However, the island sinks, and they have only what they have saved.
    In the soil lab. a person is burning through 3-inches of limestone and duplicating the characters in near perfect form. The math department decodes some of the characters from the top half of the wall.
    Ask why the Mathematician skipped most of the translated characters, “I understand all of this. The last page is active research, I must speak to the person that is working this area of research.”
    Will the grandson follow in his grandfather’s steps and fall victim to the women of the island and what they are hiding?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherD. E. Harrison
    Release dateNov 29, 2018
    ISBN9780463284490
    The Cave
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    D. E. Harrison

    I am trained as a theoretical mathematician. I am an emeritus member of the American Mathematical Society for fifty odd years. I have lived in Seattle since 1967. I starting writing fiction after writing a family history.

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      The Cave - D. E. Harrison

      The Cave

      By D.E. Harrison

      Copyright 2010 by D. E. Harrison

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      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1 The War

      Chapter 2 Relocation

      Chapter 3 War’s Over, William Jones Goes Home

      Chapter 4 Grandpa’s Two Boxes

      Chapter 5 A Rare Set of Journals

      Chapter 6 Reading the War Journals

      Chapter 7 Visiting the Cave

      Chapter 8 Exploring the Cave

      Chapter 9 Earthquake

      Chapter 10 The Wall’s Characters are Discussed

      Chapter 11 Recreate the Wall Characters

      Chapter 12 Dating the Wall in the Cave

      Chapter 13 The Cycle Continues to Turn

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      Chapter 1 The War

      It is 1942 in the south Pacific. The Mariana Islands are visible looking east on board a naval frigate. The main objective taken, and the airfield construction is almost complete. Then it happens. A single carrier fighter takes incoming fire not from the island with the airfield, but from the adjacent island ten miles south. It is roughly five miles by four miles, the typical reef surrounding it.

      A company of Marines go to secure the small island, which has a small ridge running its entire length North to South. At the southern tip, a re-con patrol is just returning and reports.

      The Captain calls a first Lieutenant into his tent, William, re-con reports the main enemy force is on the eastern side of the ridge that is right in the flight path of the new air field. But near the middle of the island, the ridge widens some. On the western slope is a Cave. It has a huge overlapping field of fire into the West valley. I need you to take two squads and secure this area. I need to send a force up the West Valley to flank their forces on the East side. There is one big unknown, it will not leave this room, the size of the enemy forces is not well known.

      He continues, Your guide lived on the island and reports that the number of enemies were small, but he isn't sure. He will get you close to the Cave but there is a bunch of mambo jumbo about it. Report as needed, you have a four-hour lead on the forces moving up the West Valley. One last item; this could be a leper colony, expect anything. Dismissed.

      Lieutenant William Jones is an English/Spanish descent from Texas. His hair is very dark, skin is a light olive, but he stands six foot one. A big man for his time. The Pacific sun has not lightened his skin any but taken a few pounds off him.

      At age twenty-four, unmarried he is the oldest Lieutenant in the division. A 2nd Lieutenant lasts about four months in combat. He surpassed the eighteen-month line and he became a full Lieutenant. He seems to survive, the privates in his command sees this as a plus.

      A Marine Sergeant of fifteen years is waiting for him. The main reason William is a Lieutenant is that he does what the Sergeant suggests.

      The Sergeant says, Lieutenant, this cannot be good. The main force has already started to move out. What I thought would be the reserves are starting to check their equipment and going to the ammo dump. They are going to move out.

      Lieutenant Jones orders, Sergeant, have squads A and B saddle up. We move out in ten minutes. The guide is over there under the tree. Get three good scouts, him and move them out, in five minutes. Here's the map, the circle is where there is a Cave. We are to secure it before the West forces get there. The guide lived on the island; he knows the quickest way to the Cave. He will not get to close to the Cave; local folk lore says it is a bad place to be. It is likely a machine gun nest at best. I want you about 200 yards behind the scouts, take one radioman with you, and move out.

      In five minutes, the three scouts and guide disappear into the jungle. The Sergeant and radioman follow several minutes later.

      In three minutes, Lieutenant Jones’ two squads assemble up and their scouts melt into the jungle, leaving the Lieutenant with only six Marines in his main force.

      Their object is two and a half miles into the center of the island. The Captain’s main force on the eastern side of the island is forming two lines that stretch from the ridge to the seashore. The destroyer two miles offshore will start to shell the jungle half a mile ahead of the eastern force.

      The Sergeant and radioman are moving ahead, which is only two hundred yards ahead of the Lieutenant’s main force. His six men have little time to consider why there are more scouts out than in their main force. The advance re-con scouts and guide are half a mile from

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