My brothers faces haunt me. I hear their children, my nieces and nephews, asking me why I came home without their daddies. I think of their wives, imagine their questions. Our parents, forever seeing the faces of their lost sons when they look at me. They will want answers, demand to know how I survived. And what do I tell them? That I huddled like a baby inside my tent while their killer beckoned me forth for one last stand?

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Themes

  • Family — The ties of kinship, parenting, and unconditional love
  • Fear — Understanding and overcoming the anxieties that hold us back

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