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Acknowledgments

I thank my Christian wife for her vast amount of godly wisdom, counsel, and extreme dedication in raising our two boys. Without her amazing advice and her God-fearing criticism, the ability to write this book would have been impossible. Thank you, my wonderful wife. You are the apple of my eye.

I thank both of my sons, Steven and David, for giving me the opportunity to be your dad, although I feel I let you down several times over the years for not being there when I should have been. I want you to know that I did my best. I love both of you very much.

I thank David May, my brother in Christ, for sharing the gospel of Jesus Christ with me. Due to his love of Jesus, I accepted Christ into my life, and until this day, the Word of God has allowed me to fully understand what is important in this short span of life on earth.

I thank Don Francisco (Flute4Jesus), who spent thirty years of his life in the military serving God and country. His steadfast belief in Jesus Christ is the strongest of any individual I have ever had the opportunity to know.

I thank Art Garrett, my friend who is also retired from the United States Marine Corps and who understands the reason I am writing this book due to his career within the Department of Corrections.

I thank Officer Steven Cobb, Officer Danielle Wrencher, and Officer Alina McCray, three of the finest correctional officers I had the opportunity to work with on a daily basis. Without their everyday support and protection of one another’s back, it would have been impossible to handle the unexpected on a daily basis and have the assurance we went home safe to our families.

I thank Officer Richard Wilkie, who walked more miles on M-N-O yards during the past twelve years than I have on my Toyota pickup truck—tremendous endurance for an individual who made the safety of all staff his main priority

I thank my wonderful parents, Thad and Barbara Baker, for raising me right and always being there when I needed them. I surely miss them both every day.

I thank the Department of Correction and the Department of Public Safety for their support. I was associated with some of the finest correctional personnel, I believe, in the prison system.

And finally, I must ultimately thank this great country of ours for allowing me the privilege and honor to serve and protect it for over twenty years as a member of the armed forces of the greatest nation in the world, the United States of America.