Sincere Thoughts and Prayers go with you and yours Preacherman for safe passage and swift return.
Mine has returned from his third tour in "other" than original condition. PTSD.
I have been pondering his generation's ability to take to their graves the atrocities of these wars. I don't know where they have been, what they have seen, what they have done, nor more importantly how to combat its encroachment into the lives of our returning soldiers and their families.
It is said that time heals all wounds. "Saving Private Benjamin" only touches, at its end, on the reality, the emotion, the change in life that can occur.