A Green Beret's True Story of His Jack Lawson with Sully de Fontaine

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Behind the Wheel
decaying remnants of a wheel off a fourteenth century
Portuguese oxcart stands in the middle of Inkisi, a tiny
African village on the banks of one of the hundreds of Congo River
tributaries.
This wheel is set in a hardened mud brick pedestal much like a
monument. Like most monuments it represents a special incident
in the lives of people of the Congo’s western region. It represents
victory and freedom in a battle the ancestors of the people of Inkisi
fought centuries ago with Portuguese slave traders.
Left to the imagination are the grief, tears, anguish and blood
shed by those people centuries ago when the incident took place
that led to the capture of this wheel. For centuries, this event was
not recorded through writings or books. Nor are there inscriptions
or plaques on the pedestal of this wheel describing this great victory
in their history, a battle for their freedom. Had they lost this battle,
their defeat would have forever changed their existence and that of
their children and their children’s children. They would have been
slaves for generations.
But this battle was recorded just the same for centuries in the
only way they knew how to pass on their history on. It was a story