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Chapter 1 Fitzgerald

The day Bruan Fitzgerald was born in Keeling, Bell County, Texas, the last plane carrying Americans flew out of Saigon, and the Vietnam War, which lasted for a full twenty years, ended with the Americans' defeat.

The 1970s were a decade of America's loss and hard work to regain confidence. But the war failure that lasted for a generation has caused almost all Americans to fall into depression and self-doubt.

The Fitzgerald family is the most famous family in Killing County. According to the Fitzgerald family's records, in 1837, after the metallurgical factory of Bell Fitzgerald collapsed, the unruly Birmingham man decided to come to the New World to try his luck with his last 172 pounds of assets.

Bell, who has been living in the city, chose animal husbandry in the vast Republic of Texas. This should have been the beginning of a tragedy, but what turned the story around was Bell's almost innate riding and the tongue that seemed to have been blessed by God.

With his pickyness in beef quality and pursuit of leather quality, Bell only took three years to expand the cattle shed he raised to a huge scale of 800 heads and bought a land of 400 acres.

After thirteen years in the United States, Bell Fitzgerald became the largest rancher in the area. His land had expanded to 2,400 acres, with cattle herds exceeding 10,000 at its peak. He even owned two plantations and more than 800 black slaves.

As an absolute "decent man" and "gentleman" and a military leader who made great achievements during the invasion of Texas by Mexico, the political leader who promoted the incorporation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, Bell was successfully elected governor of Texas in 1850.

In the year he was elected, Bell County, named in memory of his founding, and a city, Killing, was established on the land owned by Fitzgerald.

Although most of Bell's descendants have nothing to do with politics, they, like other Texans, have inherited the two major traditions of the Fitzgerald family - joining the army and livestock.

Until the year Bruen Fitzgerald was born, the tradition first encountered a huge challenge.

Bruen's two uncles and his own uncle were both soldiers. But twenty years of war took away two of his relatives. After he was born, among the male relatives who were able to participate in family gatherings, the only ones who had been drunk were always the uncle.

Under the influence of the anti-war wave, hippie movement and the stagflation crisis, Bruen's childhood was not too carefree. The messy social thoughts and economic recession greatly affected the business of the Fitzgerald family. But for Bruen, the biggest blow came from the death of his uncle.

Rom Fitzgerald died in March 1984. The cause of death was drunk driving and a car accident caused by taking a large amount of drugs.

For Bruen, Uncle Rom should be a relative who has always had a gentle smile. He would take himself to ride a Harley Motorcycle, tell himself many stories about wars before, and he would help the child who accidentally broke his arm to fix the splint, and then send the person to the hospital.

Uncle Rom is a good person, but he ended his life in a "extremely irresponsible" way. This blow even made Bruen fall into suspicion of everything - will other relatives and friends suddenly end their lives in this way one day?

This confusion continued to Uncle Rom's funeral. At his funeral, a Marine General named Rogers Romney delivered a funeral speech.

"Rom is the best Marine Army Doctor I have ever met." Major General Romney said in a low and hoarse voice. "Our brave male and female soldiers who have been in Vietnam for five years and have been saved by Rom from the brink of death, at least five hundred. In Saigon, if Dr. Fitzgerald is responsible for your treatment, you will have a high chance of survival. If Dr. Fitzgerald has no choice... Then no one will have a better idea unless the Son comes in person."

"The long and high-intensity work crushed this noble man, yes, he died of drug overdose and alcoholism. His death was very disgraceful and brought shadows to the entire community. But I must stand up and defend him - he was an amazing person, a man who could ignore the skin color, ideology, or even be kind to him and try to save lives." Major General Romney said after a long silence. "I don't know what's wrong with this country, nor do I know what's wrong with our army. I only know that when I just joined the army and participated in World War II, people like Dr. Fitzgerald should always be respected by people, and will not be regarded as executioners, murderers or unclean people by others in the community after returning to their hometown."

"When you look at a person with an ideological perspective, what you do is not only summarize him - you also push him behind him." His voice became deeper and the young Bruen even felt that his chest was trembling with the eulogy. "There is nothing strange about his cause of death, but his situation is not his own fault."

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As the nephew of drug addicts and soldiers, Bruen didn't live a very smooth life in the middle school stage. Especially after he made up his mind to work hard on medical school, life in the school became even more difficult. In that era when the United States began to regain confidence in sports, the most popular kids in the school were always sports stars - those who are good at football, baseball or basketball.

The nephew of a drug addict who is not tall and has a light weight who only knows how to read books naturally becomes a natural target of being bullied.

This phenomenon changed a few times in the last two years of middle school - Bruen's belated puberty finally arrived. He began to grow taller quickly, his voice was low and his muscles were bulging. Such changes, coupled with the age of eighteen, Bruen finally got his motorcycle license, at least no one dared to provoke him casually.

Bruen inherited the 1965 Harley FLH of Uncle Rom. When he rode this motorcycle and legally drove on the highway to Harvard, Bruen realized that his life would never be separated from the motorcycle.

In 1993, the United States was in a thriving and thriving atmosphere. It seemed as if the huge riots that occurred in Los Angeles a year ago did not exist. Bruen rode his uncle's Harley all the way northeast and rode the expressway for 1,918 miles. On the fifth day after the trip, Bruen arrived in Cambridge.

A red-necked Texas man from the south rode an antique motorcycle from Texas all the way to Harvard. Such a story has already given Bruen a peculiar halo. Although this halo is not necessarily positive, Bruen is famous. His fame has become even bigger after two months - he beat up a fraternity member who tried to destroy his motorcycle.

There are rumors that the scene was very ugly when Bruen beats people. The six-foot-four-tall bear was waving his fists while crying. There are also rumors that when he beats people, the Methodist bell rang. Many passers-by insisted that they saw the falling feathers and holy light behind Bruen.
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