Chapter 112 Section 15

When Roseanne asked how the two passionate lovers would survive the next four years of separation, "Devon said right away, they're going to spend all their winter, summer and spring breaks together." It’s always free. So we don’t have to worry about expensive long-distance bills.’ … Diane also said she would transfer to Air Force Academy as soon as the time came.” On June 28, ten days after Artian Jones' birthday, an interview with Roseanne Ruiz appeared in the newspaper, entitled "A Couple Will March Hand in Hand to the Beat of Snare Drums and Then to the Wedding March".The whole story is written like a modern fairy tale.

Two days later, Devon left Texas for Colorado Springs, Colorado, and two days later, Diana arrived in Annapolis.As Roseanne puts it in her report: "Beginning their military careers." Amidst the sound of military drums, what greeted them was the harsh and almost brutal summer recruit training—the last exam before entering school.By August 1, the U.S. Air Force Academy had eliminated 5% of its freshmen. Together with the remaining 966 boys and 204 girls, Devin Glenmond successfully passed the four-week "purgatory season" and became the In addition to tuition and board and lodging fees, he began to receive a monthly reserve officer allowance of US$58.04.However, according to relevant sources of the school, after deducting routine haircuts, laundry, textbooks and other expenses, the students actually do not have much pocket money left in the end.And it is this money, if the student withdraws before the third grade, he must return it in full.

At the same time, in Annapolis on the east coast, Diana Zamora and her classmates are still going out early and returning late, struggling.They have no weekends, no holidays, they wake up at 5:30 every morning and turn off the lights at 10 pm, and there is no lunch break in between.Recruit training at the U.S. Naval Academy lasts six weeks, and the elimination rate is as high as 10%.Now, just four weeks later, more than 80 people have been deported to their hometowns, or in the words of the practitioners themselves, "shot dead".The content of recruit training includes 100 hours of drills, shooting, sailing, field training, etc., and when talking to the commander, every sentence must end with "Mr." or "Ms."For example, if the officer asks where Diana's hometown is, her answer should be: "Crowley, Texas, sir." In fact, the officer often asks the hometown of other students in the same team, which is also their hometown. One of the training items: memorize the last name, first name and the name of the state and city of the hometown of all other students in the same team.In addition, more than 100 pages of Naval Academy history, current situation, various rules and regulations, curriculum settings, etc. must be memorized, especially the code of ethics and loyalty regulations that students must follow.The most famous graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy is Jimmy Earl Carter, the 39th President of the United States of America.

Diana tried so hard, she didn't want to "get shot".What made her unbearable was not physical exhaustion, but spiritual and psychological emptiness and torture.Now she finally understood why Roseanne Ritz of the Fort Worth Star was asking so many questions about how she and Devon would cope with a four-year separation.This 18-year-old girl experienced the pain of parting for the first time in her life, and she was with her fiancé, and she was in such a passionate love again. During boot training, everything is strictly controlled, and the only communication between Diana and Devon in Colorado is email.No matter how tired or sleepy she was, Diana emailed her fiancé almost every day, and of course asked Devon to do the same.As long as Devon didn't reply in time, Diana would start to think wildly and become restless.Although she has strong perseverance to overcome all kinds of difficulties in training, she can't get rid of the loneliness, suspicion and even despair brought by lovesickness.At this time, the students in the same period were already familiar with each other, and Diana began to tell others.

Diana's first complaint was to their team captain, Jay Gelder of Illinois. "She loved talking about Devon," Jay later said in response to police and school interrogations. "She missed him so much. But the way she talked about him was kind of weird, like she didn't trust him, but couldn't leave him." Drive him. That's absurd." Jay shook his head. Jay was a good listener, he just listened, rarely interrupted, and never shared with others what they were talking about.But he didn't understand at the time that this was not allowed in the US Naval Academy because it violated the rules of loyalty they swore to follow.

Once, Diana didn't receive a reply from Devon for two days, so she told Jie that she wanted to break off the engagement with Devon and wanted Jie to be her boyfriend. "She started dating me," said Jay, who also sent Devon an email telling him she had kissed Jay. Sure enough, as Diana expected, Devon quickly wrote back, warning Jay Gelder to stay away from Diana, otherwise he would report to the relevant department of the military academy to investigate his "sexual harassment" of Diana.Devon also begged Diana to be faithful to their promise in the middle of the letter, and reminded her not to forget that "we are grasshoppers tied to a rope".

"Now you understand how I feel," Diana wrote back. But it was too late.A week before that, Diana had told Jay that she and Devon shared a "secret that can only be brought to the grave." "She said that Devon had lied to her, so she forced Devon to kill the girl." Jie recalled.Diana didn't give too many details, "Just said that she asked Devon to do this, and she saw Devon do it... At first, I thought that what she said was just for grandstanding, to arouse people's attention to her." Pay attention, so I asked her why she did such a thing, I wanted to find out if she was joking. ... But then, she brought it up again and again, maybe 10 times in total."

Summer recruit training was finally over, and on Saturday night, August 24, to celebrate their "surviving the hell of boot camp," Diana asked her room-mate, Janine Moconi, out for a drink and back home. It was already 1:30 am in the dormitory.Another girl in the dormitory, Mandy Gertsch, was lying on the bed, but not asleep. "I heard Jenny and Diana come in, talking and laughing," Mandy later reported to school authorities. "They were talking about Diana's fiancé, Devin, which was a topic Diana never tired of talking about. Diana She was saying that her parents were penniless at the time, and the house was taken away, so she could only sleep in the car every night, and it was Devin who took her to live with them... and bought her clothes, etc. She was out After the car accident, Devon took good care of her and paid a large amount of medical bills for her... Devon sold the truck and some guns that caused the accident, and chipped in to buy her an engagement ring.... After a while , Janie asked: 'Are you still a virgin?' Diana shook her head and said no. And said it would have been easier if she and Devon hadn't had sex."