Current events reviberate through our daily existence and bring past atrocities home even here in the middle of nowhere.
Every military conflict for the past thirty years brings my husband's Vietnam experience home to roost.
Again and again.
Robert Mueller's death and mention of his bronze star only adds to the memories of his own service.
I listen because I hope it helps.
He was just a kid when he was in uniform but it feels like yesterday to both of us. His two bronze stars sit in a drawer with all of his other commendations.
He worries about everyone in harms way and wonders why Congress allows this immediate travesty. Why don't they care about the human toll? On all sides.
The right or the wrong of the politics doesn't matter almost sixty years later. My husband's two tours never really ended but extend to the right here and right now.
The waging of war demands a price.
We will keep paying because we never learn.
@NorcalGma2 Thank you so much for your thoughts and about your husband. Thank you both for your service and sacrifice. I was too young to serve but well old enough know people who lost parents and siblings in combat. My Dad also served during VN. The scars of war don’t go away and the regime has failed the lesson from VN: You can’t fight a war without popular support.