Beneath me lay the sands of timeFour sand walls and they are mine
My roof is but the starlit sky
and that's a Soldier's Paradise
~Thomas Murrie Donnelly
All of us know someone who has served in the armed forces-somewhere! But, how much do we really know about them or what they did? If your family is anything like mine, the stories of war didn’t get dragged out and bragged about at the Sunday dinner table. Survivors of war, even those who make it through with their life and their bodies still intact, do not escape unscathed. The experience of war is unlike anything else and the opportunities for mercy are few and far between. The mercy that escaped the veteran on the battlefield is given to the family members by the vet on their return. The sounds and images that run in a loop in their head they mercifully reserve for themselves.
