Homeomming

 

In my first article I found that there are a lot of things to be said about the topic I decided to write about. When describing how military families interact and how they live their lives can evoke and describe a lot of emotions. The writing technique was exploratory, and really talked to the effect of homecoming expectations in the eyes of the entire family. Most of the time it is good, according to the author, and he basically takes an over view of the return process. The family in question never once batted an eyelash that their family member was coming home missing part of his leg. They didn’t even mention it in their interviews prior to the plane landing. The writer touched on it briefly, but didn’t give it much justice when he was typing the article up. He obviously didn’t want to ask the really tough questions.

How can you go through that mentally and come out the other side the same man. Unfortunately the story that is told more then not is of the soldier coming home to no one. The kids in this war are the ones taking the risks, and they don’t have the strong family base that the older troops have, so when they get off the plane the only people they have are their parents and a girlfriend that isn’t going to be around much longer. This is sad beyond belief, but at least the family looked strong. The family looked like they could deal with this change.