Memoirs of a Diaper Boy

Epilogue

Looking back on my life, I’m still amazed at how well balanced I’ve turned out. I think that first year with my new family was the hardest of all of us. I continued to see a doctor at first to help me cope with all the things I had been through during my formative years and later to help me adjust when I finally accepted the fact that I was gay. It seems my family took this news better than I did. By the time I reached the beginning of high school , my bladder had finally healed enough that I was able to re-toilet train myself so I was out of diapers by the time school started. I was certainly glad about this point. As for high school, if I knew then what I know now I wouldn’t have worked so hard to have my parents switch to the local high school instead of staying at Stonehenge.

The only good thing that seemed to come from all the incidents I had ended up in during my freshman and sophomore years did make things easier when I decided to apply to the Naval Academy. In fact, I was kind of surprised that I had all of the service academies trying to scout me. I guess receiving a couple of Navy Crosses among other awards while in high school will do this. Of course, given the fact that I was only fifteen at the time made things even more unusual. It took an Executive order to make this happen but, I think it was worth it. I ended up receiving my commission just months before WWIII kicked off. Luckily, it only lasted just over a year. By the war’s end I had been promoted several times and ended up commanding the ship that launched the only nuclear weapon used. I now have a better understanding of what Truman and his staff must have felt like giving the orders to use these damned things during the last World War. I certainly hope that those things are never used again. We found out later that the Russian hardliners that had started this war had done so to try and seize the dwindling oil reserves in the Middle East. This caused our government to step up the plans they had in place to remove our dependence on fossil fuels. By the time I retired from the Navy I had managed to gain the rank of Rear Admiral (upper half). I had heard rumors of my possibly getting moved to Vice Admiral, but an injury during the China/Korea war forced my retirement after only 15 years of service. Shortly after my leaving the service I found out that I was the father of a son. I must say that this was a shock to me since I had only been with a woman once in my life and that was only for a long weekend. Unlike my own father, I took him in the second I found out that I had been informed. Shortly after this, I met the man that I hope to spend the rest of my life with. Like me, he is retired Navy, though he was able to pull his full twenty before his retirement. He too has a son though. he had been married for several years. I thought he was going to have a heart attack the first time we saw each other in our uniforms. I guess he assumed I had been an enlisted man as well I will say that the look on his face was priceless when he found out that he had been making love to a flag officer. After a couple of years together we had decided to have kids of our own and ended up with three very lovable sons. I managed to get my law degree over the years while I was in uniform and later got elected to the state senate. I guess I should mention the rest of the family at this point.

Megan went on to follow in our father’s footsteps and is a very well respected Pediatric surgeon in Texas. She currently lives outside San Antonio with her family.

Bradley decided on joining the Marines after high school. I still have to laugh at his reasoning for this when my parents asked him why. He told them he was sick and tired of people telling him what to do. Go figure. After spending almost a decade in uniform he retired and joined the FBI. He was later killed during an undercover assignment. He had a son five year old son at the time of his death. I never found out what became of the boy though I’m still looking.

Isaac, like me, entered the Naval Academy after graduating high school. I can only imagine how much it grated on him to have to take orders from his younger brother. Of course he paid me back for the hell I gave at the Academy when he was promoted over me a couple of times and was made Chief of Naval Operations a few years before I retired. Once he left the service, he made a bid for Secretary of the Navy and surprisingly enough he got the post. He currently lives in McLean, Virginia with his wife and three daughters. Given what a Romeo he was during his high school and Academy years, I would say someone upstairs has a really twisted sense of humor. I’ll probably call him up and rub it in once they start dating.

David didn’t shock us one bit. After graduating college with degrees in Business Management and Bio-chemistry he went to work for Jordon’s Inc. in their R & D division. I guess his wearing diapers all his life really paid off in this spot with all the design changes he made to Jordon’s products. The one thing that is likely to earn him a Nobel Prize is an additive he’s developed to make plastics and other previously non-biodegradable items biodegradable in landfills and is not harmful to the planet. What’s even better that it even works on previously disposed items. He lives in Colorado with his wife and kids.

James and John both decided to enter politics after college. John is currently a U.S. Senator from Arizona while James is the current Governor of the same state.

Jason also went into politics He currently is serving his second term as Vice-President of the United States. Family rumor has it that in a couple of years he plans to run for President.

Finis

This story will be continued in Memoirs of a Diaper Boy II.