A Return from Iraq
Home from Faluja, Baghdad, Sadyr City, Mossel, Anbar
Province, places on a map bound for Dover Air Force Base
in Delaware, C 130 transport 12 hour non-stop landing after
midnight with my lovely wife and 3 sons waiting, a reunion
long delayed memories of that small southern town, high
school graduation, marriage, kids, a job pumping gas as the
cargo door of the plane opens and my flag-draped coffin is
gently lowered onto the tarmac.
by Alan Braverman |