On the bus to Fort Hood, Lee is befriended by another soldier, who calls himself Hershey. Lee hates everyone and everything. He believes his hatred will help him get through this experience, and to an extent, he’s right. He becomes a skilled soldier. He describes the other men in his unit, Hershey, Snake, Sarge, Zap, and Wolf, a native Cherokee from southern Oklahoma. Although he says he hates them all, he admits having respect for Wolf because he is a fierce warrior. Lee is spoiling for a fight-and he finds one when he comes upon some other soldiers trying to bully Hershey and Wolf. Lee attacks the main perpetrator with a knife, and only lets him go when they all promise to back off.
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I guess you can tell I'm doing all of the voices for these episodes. I really struggled trying to get Hershey's voice to sound right. He's like a lot of friends I've had, that put up with me even when I was going through some tough times and I was a grump. Wolf's voice was hard, too. How do you convincingly sound like a Cherokee? I've always felt I had a mid-range voice that didn't really sound that good. In order to make it sound deeper, I got up to read these parts early in the morning, about 5:00 AM. When I tried to read later than that, it was like I would lose the entire lower range of my voice. I'm not an actor, but I can imagine in my mind how the voices and the inflections should sound . Most of times I read this, I think I got close to make it believable. Anyway, I hope you like it. - JN