“The Quarterback Shoved My Little Sister — He Didn’t Know Her Brother Had Just Returned From a Black Ops Deployment”

sitting on a porch with his little sister, watching the sunset, eating overpriced ice cream Mom brought out on paper plates, and being grateful for the boring, mundane, absolutely perfect peace of being home. I didn’t know what I was fighting for during all those deployments, not really. It’s abstract when you’re over there—freedom, democracy, protecting continue reading …