Today's Quote: "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them." -Galileo Galilei
Lesson Learned: I wish I were an "ignorance is bliss" person.
The first book I read is Soft Spots by Cliff Van Winkle. It is mesmerising, well written and raw. I could not put it down - I read it in one sitting, it had such a hold on me. Do not read it if you have a loved one either deployed or about to deploy "down range." It will tear your heart out and make you fear things other than IEDs and sniper bullets.
The second is I Love A Man In Uniform:A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles. Not your ordinary Amy Officer's Wife. Plain-spoken, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, often blunt and occasionally graphic. It wasn't all all what I expected, but was a good read, none the less. And from my very limited Army Wife perspective, it rings true.
Neither of these are children's books. They are both well above the PG13 level. You need a strong gut, and tough heart and an affinity for four letter words to not be offended by them. But if you can get beyond that, then there are two powerful stories of broken souls and how they successfully clawed their way to some kind of peace with themselves and their maker. Like a memoir of a drug addict that I read some time ago (A Million Little Pieces by James Frey), they are not for the feint of heart. If you can stomach the delivery method, there is much to learn from all three of these books about life on the bleeding edge. and the courage of those who survive to deal with the fall out.
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