Chapter 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It had only been a few hours since I got back from a tour Id been on with the Liberty Navy. My brother and I sat in a small bar in Manhattan, hunched over our mugs of Liberty ale. It seemed like a lifetime since we last saw each other, and it felt good to reminisce. He was trying to fill in all the memories that I missed while I was gone. The worst of the events was the death of our parents. They had been…