Cutting through a community
Walking down the passageway of a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier somewhere in the Mediterranean, 18-year-old Jimmy Mack realized he was being taught to kill.Frustrated with the lack of work in Roanoke, Va., he had joined the Navy a year earlier and had already seen the world ? Guantanamo Bay, San Juan, Port-au-Prince, Palermo, Naples, Istanbul, Barcelona, Nice.On his second Mediterranean cruise, however, the novice gunner was struck suddenly by the lethal purpose of his travels.