A Tiny Bit of Comfort

[tomahawk6]

Dispatch from a National Guardsman serving in Iraq. Very eloquent.

"A soldier sees and feels a wider variety of sights and emotions in a year than most people will experience in a lifetime. ..."

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/267529_vessay21.html

 

[spr. mackinnon]

Very well written indeed, began to choke me up.
"I have often wondered if, on that day when I missed my family so much, it wasn't a coincidence that she found me, of all soldiers. Maybe it was that innocent girl, and not me, that was the angel sent by God."