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Author: magix

Veterans Day – Open letter from a soldier

Two years ago, I marked Veterans Day in DC admiring the splendor and beauty of the World War II memorial. Finding those two certain names on the spare and solemn granite wall of the Vietnam memorial and tracing my fingers over the etched remains of their lives brought home, like a chisel through stone, how blessed I was my son came home alive.
Today, I wrestle with my longing for the man he was before war …

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