Essentially, I was told that there were only two ways that I would return to the "world." America: it would be in a body bag or in chains on my way to spend twenty years in Fort Leavenworth prison. After eighteen months of their best efforts to make that happen, on October 16, 1971, I boarded the freedom bird without chains, without a scratch on my body, and with all of my body parts, never needing as much as a band-aid.