Deployed
“She felt empty and exhausted. She still wore her bloodstained fatigues.
The images wouldn’t leave her mind. The memories of Ralph Caxton at the auto parts store and at the airport warred with the ones of him dying as she held his hand.
Although it had been less than two weeks since she’d last seen Travis and her granny, it already felt like so long ago. The perception of that time difference made her feel even more distant from her family. There was no transition going from back home to the mid...dle of a war zone. It felt like she had just appeared here.
Or worse, that one of the two lives she led was just a figment of her imagination. Putting those two halves together was hard, especially when there were so many emotions attached to each of them.
She supposed it was because Ralph Caxton was the first Marine she’d known back in the real world and then seen die on the battlefield. All of the others she’d first met back in training or on a tour of duty. They had been Marines when she’d met them.MoreLess
The images wouldn’t leave her mind. The memories of Ralph Caxton at the auto parts store and at the airport warred with the ones of him dying as she held his hand.
Although it had been less than two weeks since she’d last seen Travis and her granny, it already felt like so long ago. The perception of that time difference made her feel even more distant from her family. There was no transition going from back home to the mid...dle of a war zone. It felt like she had just appeared here.
Or worse, that one of the two lives she led was just a figment of her imagination. Putting those two halves together was hard, especially when there were so many emotions attached to each of them.
She supposed it was because Ralph Caxton was the first Marine she’d known back in the real world and then seen die on the battlefield. All of the others she’d first met back in training or on a tour of duty. They had been Marines when she’d met them.MoreLess
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