Chapter 14
“I’m not saying I don’t appreciate our men and women in the military, but I have to seriously question their sanity. Who would voluntarily join knowing they are going to possibly end up in a desert, getting little sleep, shooting at people, and having people shoot at them in return? I mean, that’s just not normal,” I tell Etta as I look at the short letter I finally received from Job. He’d been gone on a mission for a week. That just seemed inhumane. Did he have enough water? Food? What about general hygiene? Brushing teeth? Showers? I hadn’t thought about those things until he told me he’d been away from his base camp for a week.
“For some people, it’s the rush of danger. They enjoy the heightened emotions and the surge of adrenaline,” Etta explains.
“So, they have no surviv
