Chapter 3Home
Then we were home, my wife was in my arms and my kids were all over me. God it was so good to see them, to be with them again. I really had wondered in the last several days whether it might ever be able to be true again. No one really asked me any questions right away about why I had a rifle, a shotgun, three pistols, a whole backpack partially filled with canned goods as well as a sack with some empty and some full cans. I filled up the hall closet with all the stuff except for the canned goods which I gave to my mother.
Mom is a very sweet and very patient woman, but she is also the wife of a Recon Marine. And she has weathered two men in her family going to war and surviving in the most brutal and dangerous jobs imaginable. After she kissed me on the cheek and hugged me
