Chapter 8War Comes to an End
The practice of sleeping during the day and fighting at night was wearing on the women. I could not blame either one of them particularly for being a little testy from time to time. They were always with the kids, and always on the alert to any activity around the house. They were our guardians in the day while we were theirs in the night. It was difficult for them. Going outside was dangerous, maybe, but how to know when it was true? They were not marines after all.
Sometimes they were outside with the kids playing various games in the light of day while they could. One day while they were not paying enough attention to the sounds around them a helicopter pulled up out of the trees and spotted them almost instantly.
Of course they ran toward the house, but
