My wife is alone in our full bed too. Her husband, the father of her children, never came back from Iraq. When I deployed the first time she asked her grandmother for advice. Her grandfather served in Africa and Europe in World War II. Her grandmother would know what to do.How do I live with him being gone? How do I help him when he comes home? my wife asked. He wont come home, her grandmother answered. The war will kill him one way or the other. I hope for you that he dies while he is there. Otherwise the war will kill him at home. With you. My wifes grandfather died of a heart attack on the living-room floor, long before she was born. It took a decade or two for World War II to kill him. When would my war kill me?
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About Brian Castner, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
Brian Castner, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows.