A space traveler was going planet to planet looking for live beings. He landed on one planet that had no life forms, but it had a statue called The Sentinel
I remembered back in navy bootcamp; each floor had overnight sentries with four hour watches for fires. The sailor on watch was a sentinel. Any sailor on watch had to, when challenged, spout out the 10 general orders of a sentry on watch. Don't ask me what the 10 general orders of a sentry were, because I never said them again. That was 1963, a long time ago.
For some reason that stuck with me and when I started writing stories and sending them to readers, I labeled the post as “The Sentinel.”
I think I’ll call my current posts “The Sentinel.” I guess I'm going back in time, but it was a good time.
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