Tell your husbands any bad news when everything is calm, not just as they come through the door.
I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture.

