Behind the Chain-Linked Fence

The Walker siblings who live in a poor section of Central New Hampshire are taken from their family by the state and placed into an orphanage where Howard, six years old finds it hard to adjust to. He is a bed wetter and this brings him trouble abuse from the other children. Howard and his three brothers are taken on weekends to a home of the "Ladies of Charity" but this is not enough, so he runs away in search of his parents, guided only by the landmarks he remembers when his parent would take them into the city by bus. The journey to find them, leads him to meet several different families along the way.

I lived with my siblings until I was six years old. My twelve week old sister was placed into a foster home and we four boys, ages seven down to four were placed into an orphanage. Howard has problems adjusting to the home, and runs away to search for his parents by using buildings and other landmarks his father had once pointed out to him. I lived in several foster homes, served in both army and navy. Married had one child, divorced, married woman with three children. She passed after nine years of marriage. Wound up in a veterans home where I met a woman who became my wife on August 14th, 2009.