The military is a very cool world to write about. I went down to Ft. Benning, Ga., for military training, and I learned a lot about soldiers and officers and why they joined up and what their life has been like.
“I was only 24 then, but 18 of those 24 years had been dedicated to wanting to get to that moment.”
“This kind of forgetting does not erase memory, it lays the emotion surrounding the memory to rest.”