In between school work and Up With People touring, David continued to recieve special training. Here "G" is conducting fire arms training for David and other UWP operatives.

David and the others would tune in to episodes of Sanford and Son to recieve coded messages from "Mr. Foxx". The "Elizabeth....I'm coming! This is the big one!" routine was actually a command for UWP operatives to begin various covert operations.

Project X-101 Begins

Needless to say, I was quite shaken by the revelation in the UWP conference room. These people who I had known and loved as my parents were not really my parents. And I still didn't know who my real mother was. "David, everything will start to make sense over time," my "mom" told me. For now, the best thing for me was to begin my mission.

The first order of business was to get me back into the "real" world. As "G" had told me, I had been time-locked. I was transported back to Philmont and awoke in my sleeping bag in a tent full of my Boy Scout friends. It was as if the past few weeks of intense mental and physical exertion had never happened. Of course, I could say nothing about any of this to my friends.

Other than the fact that I had "passed an audition" to join the popular Up With People touring group, my life for the next two years appeared to be completely normal. (See UPW picture below: I am circled in the back row.) I periodically had to miss some school as I was traveling with UWP, but other than that no one was the wiser about my new, covert lifestyle. Even my "mom and dad" acted as if nothing had happened. But appearances were deceiving....

I was busy enough with school and performing, but my "field" work consisted of sending and recieving coded messages from Yenohp operatives around the world (which were decoded with my decrypter device), and conducting various surveillance projects. Throughout this time, we received covert messages from "Mr. Foxx." The famous, oft repeated bit on Sanford and Son where Fred feigns a heart attack was actually a coded command for members of UWP to begin various operations. Where ever the group was in our travels, we had to make sure we were able to tune in to Sanford and Son every week to recieve these communications.

Even my "secret" life became somewhat routine until I finished high school in May of 1974. But once I was finished with high school it was time for the next phase in the project. One month after graduation I would find myself at Expo 74 in Spokane, WA. Here I would meet another interesting character in my strange saga.

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