hello walls...

Before reading this, go over, and read THIS. It really is imperative. One of the white elephants in the military household...

The wall.

Some of our soldiers come back home with walls. Some walls are thick and high and others are jagged and rocky. Some of our soldiers have become artists, and can change the wall from day to day.

Some spouses, family and friends become expert at crack detection. Finding a hole, a way in. Deciding when the wall should remain up, and when they can climb over. Hands reach in to grab a hand, or to try and help someone out of themselves...

Some soldiers become great at learning to find a way out. Others just cannot.

We work on our wall. Because there is one thing for certain. War, does change a person, some of those changes are good, wonderful lessons are learned, friends are made, a brotherhood emerges, that is unlike any other. There are other changes too, some that are hard, life is frail, and there is guilt involved in war. Guilt about missing life back home, guilt for surviving....

And so today when I read this, I am reminded of all of the work all of the Soldiers and families I know do daily. The hard work of Soldiers, the war over there and the war at home...