CHAPTER 1
The Future Guardians
The Castleway campus was a safe haven existing inside of a world that had exploded with madness, imperialism, nation building, and bitter aggression. Inside the safety of the secured campus, we had motivated students from kindergarten through postgraduate school. The children enrolled in our various academies were destined to become the future guardians of our Constitution and individual liberties. Like our own two daughters that were born and raised on the Castleway campus, parents entrusted their children to our care on the promise of a quality education in a safe and secure campus environment. With the technologies Ann and I had developed over the years, we had the ability to remain safe from hostile aggression, and neither Ann nor I feared using our capabilities to ensure the continued security of our campus and the safety of our students.
It was Saturday, and it was a warm, sunny spring day. Ann and I held hands as we walked around the campus and marveled in all that had been created through our efforts and the financial support of the technologies that we had developed. The tree-lined campus walkways had cherry blossoms in full bloom. The gardens were exploding in vibrant colors as spring flowers and shrubs began to bloom. The small pond in the center of the campus had ducks and swans swimming while seeking treats from the many students that had taken up temporary residency around the pond. Ann and I would occasionally stop and listen to students talking. Instead of discussing the latest music video or song, our students were debating what was happening outside of the campus and discussing options needed to ensure continued viability of the US Constitution and the two Bills of Rights.
On this particular sunny afternoon, it was really special because our daughters, Annie and Hope, were joining us on our walk around campus. Both of our daughters were now teaching in the law school and molding minds to do their part when the time came to protect and preserve the Constitution and individual liberties. Annie had blessed us with one granddaughter. Annie carried on the name tradition and named her daughter "Ann" after her mother. Ann was now four years old and was as tenacious and beautiful as her mother and grandmother. Hope had two children. She named her daughter "Destiny" and her son "Jeff" in my honor. Destiny was also four years old and beautiful. Jeff was three and quite handsome. While Destiny was equally as tenacious as her sister, Jeff seemed a little like me—quiet, but decisive. Our grandchildren showed a lust for learning and a love of life. Ann and I were truly blessed walking with our daughters and grandchildren. Sadly, much of our talk centered on the ongoing decay in the world around us. Hope asked me what our plans were if the decay continued to spread throughout our country like the rest of the world. At the time, I wasn't sure what we would do. For now, I reassured my daughters that we were all safe and secure behind our secured perimeter. Of course, we also had our former navy SEALs, Jake and Ross, at our beck and call. They had become an integral part of our family and assumed some of the babysitter roles for Ann, Destiny, and Jeff while our daughters were teaching. Jake and Ross had served as babysitters for Ann and me when we first entered the academy at age fourteen. Over the years, they were present when Annie and Hope were born, and they stood hand in hand with our entire family during the second revolutionary war against the wannabe king. Jake and Ross now proudly assumed their role as babysitter for our grandchildren and as our bodyguards whenever we left the security of the campus.
The true beauty of our campus life was the mutual respect shared by students of all ages. It was quite common to see college students assisting younger students in academics or reprimanding a student for littering or similarwrongs.Ourschoolshadalwaystaughtthatyourespectyoureldersand environment and you carry yourself with honor and distinction. In the high school office were lists of students offering tutoring services for any student in need. Finding help was never an issue within our school system. The students lived on campus and became an extended family that cared for each other.
On campus, academic life at the high school hadn't changed that much since Ann and I began our studies as freshman. Our entire family, meaning Ann, me, our daughters, and grandchildren, ran with the student body every morning for the one-mile fun run. Usually Annie and Hope had to drop back since our grandchildren had great difficulty keeping pace with much older runners. However, our grandchildren always completed their one-mile fun run daily, albeit sometimes in two or three sessions. Fortunately, our campus had separate tracks for each academy, relieving some of the congestion at running time. Ultimately, Ann and I restructured the fun runs into three shifts: 05:30, 06:00, and 06:30. Ann and I needed to rotate our running time because our students wanted to run with us.
I continued to serve as the senior headmaster over the lower academy, middle school academy, and high school academy. Ann was my associate senior headmaster, and Kelly continued to serve as headmaster over the high school programs. At the college level, both Ann and I sat on the board of regents. No one ever questioned our educational backgrounds as academy high school graduates only. Our student body included one thousand elementary students, one thousand middle school students, and twelve hundred high school students. At the college level, we stretched the occupancy load and had approximately 450 matriculated students from college freshman through the senior year of the law school. The philosophy never changed. We had a mission to educate leaders and eliminate followers. We wanted thinkers and doers that weren't afraid to take action when needed. We wanted freedom-loving guardians of our cherished Constitution. Our student body always stepped up and met the challenge.
The video programs that Ann and I created about the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution continued to be taught regularly in the academies, and no child graduated from high school without demonstrating proficiency in understanding the Constitution and the history of our great nation. Our students learned about how apathy led to the elimination of our individual rights and permitted the self-proclaimed king and his liberal minions to seize control over much of America while disregarding the Constitution. Students were taught to observe the small things. Eating an elephant one bite at a time might go unnoticed. The same holds true about the denigration of individual liberties. Slippery slopes are for skiing, and nothing should be tolerated that seeks to reduce our rights as citizens of this country.
One evening after work, Annie and Hope stopped by our apartment to say "Hi" and to discuss the changes in the world around us. Annie and Hope left their husbands at their apartments to babysit. As much as our daughters loved their husbands, they retained a small amount of separation between themselves and their spouses when it came to discussing current proprietary software and developing future technology. Annie and Hope asked to discuss "Seeker" and if Seeker was still viable and able to be used in the event of a defensive emergency. Ann explained that Seeker had been put to bed a little more than six years ago, and as far as the government knew,...
