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Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas San Diego, Ca. March 2012

Eddie Arana, Rick Thibodeau, & Chris Bakunas at Luche Libre Taco Shop in San Diego, March 2012
Monday, June 30, 2025
Reminiscing About The Bad Ol' Days
She said, casually; "It was twenty years ago today I was convicted. They took me right from the courthouse to the jail, didn't even get a chance to get my things together."
I just nodded my head as she continued. "I was put in what they called a pod, with a bigger group of women who had all been convicted of the same kind of offenses, and we were all Veterans."
Without much of a pause for breath she followed that with "They had three pods just for Veterans...three pods. Now, not all of those Veterans had received Honorable discharges, I'll give you that, but some of us had, and it's just a damn shame we all ended up in a civvy jail like that."
She looked wistfully out the window after she took a sip of her coke, and a little smile came to her face as she added, "Uh, 'course I was doing crack back then, and I was absolutely batshit crazy."