What It’s Like To Love And Lose A Soldier

I cannot describe how you were silly, yet serious and hardened by mere months in the Army; how you were so young, yet could talk of war and brotherhood and faith with the power and feeling of a man who has known a million years of suffering.

Why You Should Visit The Grand Canyon At Least Once In Your Life

Because when you fall asleep at night under a billion stars, on rocks that are a million years old, with people you have nothing in common with besides the pure unadulterated fact that you are all witnessing the beginnings of time, you don’t remember.

You Will Always Find Somewhere You Belong In Books

So do the things you’ve always dreamed of doing, and feel as alive as you think you need to feel, but never stop reading. Because there are things you can learn from the pages of a book that will teach you so much more tan you will ever learn from real life.

To The Soldier I Lost In Afghanistan

Tell me what the weather was like. Tell me if you killed people. Tell me the names of your friends’ girlfriends and how you passed the time and the color of the sky in the morning. Tell me all the things I never got to ask you, because I want to know.