Terry

I started watching a movie on Netflix called "Mending the Line." In the beginning, they were showing Hummers and Marines in Afghanistan fighting. I almost stopped watching it because my first thought is always of my nephew and the two men who were with him when they hit the IED in Iraq. In war, you never know who is going to survive there or here after they come home. Although my nephew and one of the other men never made it home, one man did. I do not know what battle he is still fighting, but I know he has a great support group. This movie makes me think about some of the things people go through after the war. For myself, I have never been in a war, so like so many others, we don't know how hard it is to survive the trauma. With that being said, I thought they did a great job with the movie, and given how hard it is on families, I've often wondered why a couple of ancestors never stayed with their wives after the war, perhaps they were trying to protect their families from themselves.