Wartime Casualties

The war in his family was more damaging than the one overseas

Eddie Becker
Centina Pentina
1 min readSep 1, 2020

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Photo by Will Esayenko on Unsplash

From a ship in the middle of the Pacific, he wrote to the family he hadn’t seen in weeks. Or maybe it was months?

Dread shot through his veins when signing “With Love,” like he knew upon his return this letter would be sitting unopened in the mailbox at home.

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Eddie Becker
Centina Pentina

Writer published on sites such as Bleacher Report, Relevant Magazine, and The Good Men Project. | Top Writer in Music, also writing on Humor, Faith, Poetry, etc