Wartime Casualties
The war in his family was more damaging than the one overseas
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1 min readSep 1, 2020
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.