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Ray MacAfee was a Marine sniper until he punched a commanding officer he caught abusing a village girl in Vietnam, and paid for it with a dishonorable discharge. Now he works fractional distillation at an oil refinery and changes the station when “Fortunate Son” comes on.

Albert Lacroix, his old buddy from the war, swept mines back then and works dock security now. His mother was Cajun, and he never goes anywhere without his rum flask.

Ray’s philosophy: “All we can do now is make today better than yesterday.”