As a Matter of Fact, I Do Mind

loved the story. hard to put down. will be reading your other stories for sure.

An excruciating migraine took a hold after wading through a third of the first page!... it was all over the place like an old woman's excrement stuck like adhesive to the walls!!!

Good story, but the ending was too short. What happened with Dierdre?

Brilliantly written, compelling tale and well worth the time I expended to read it, so what is servant111's beef actually about? Or is he just another one of the intoxicated characters who feel compelled to post rambling, incoherent comments here about stories they are too stoned to understand?

JR

I liked it. However, I would have also liked to find out why the wife and her lover got the weird job offers from MSF and what might have happened to them their.

Great ending

I thought he'd pretty much immediately decided on divorce and retribution. Why was he calling his wife and suggesting she could save their relationship if she stopped her affair?

this should be in the non-erotic category

Great continuation of the original plot. 5* Although I do enjoy a good BTB with a righteous roasting of the wrong-doers, I also appreciate a more believable outcome, such as this one. I liked the distinction between revenge and retribution, with the latter’s connotation of proportionate penalties for transgressions. IMHO, the MCs ambivalence about MacArthur was subtly but clearly conveyed by the “Dugout Doug” remark.

At least the author fronted up with an explanation, something very few do. Showed a touch of class, thank you

To those who were upset because our hero didn’t re-connect with Dee, who was stationed in Brussels:

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“The offer was a resumption of--not return to--active duty. Seems that my retirement paperwork somehow got altered to an assignment as commander of a reserve unit that was almost immediately disbanded. I was authorized two weeks leave and another four days travel time, at which point I had a billet in the next War College class. I accepted the offer and started checking airline schedules to Brussels.”

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Unfortunately, that closing sentence got separated from the rest of the paragraph and sort of got lost at the top of the next page, thanks to Lit’s mindless algorithm for breaking pages.

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But the confusion was my fault for trying to be cute by merely implying the resolution of Dee’s future rather than stating it explicitly. Rest assured, Colonel Weston—soon to be Brigadier General Weston—and Dee had a glorious reunion and lived happily ever after. If I resubmit the story to tidy up some other (less egregious) errors, I’ll fix it.

No burning the birch here, no finish either, what happened to Dee? A certain 5* only ended up with a 3

Wish I had connections in the Pentagon like Ski. But being minus a leg would shoot that in the foot PDQ.

Not quite finished.....He went to War College....What happened to Dee? Your *5* became a *4*

A nice finish! I'm a bit disappointed with the degree of BTB ("no physical damage"), but there was enough retribution to leave my mental vengeance mini demon fed sufficiently for a 5-star rating

Interesting story but gratuitous comment about “Duckout Doug” was a comment not germane to the story or indicative of his career as a soldier

Much better ending than the original tale deserved. @Servant111 clearly confuses "plot hole" with "didn't do what I thought they should."

Not saying it should've been a BTB ending, but they did get off scott free other than not getting jobs, which makes this not so satisfying...