Dear Mary
Dear Mary,
It is 3 am, I cannot get to sleep. I miss you, more than anything in the world. These past two years have been torture. When I signed up for this I did not understand the difficulties I would be put through. I am constantly facing death, stress, and the trenches. I cannot believe the lies they told us to get us to come here. They said we would be home by Christmas, that it would be an easy victory. None of this has been easy. I have shed blood and tears, and we have not made any progress. I truly do not know if we can be victorious. I feel like we are fighting for nothing. There isn’t any pride or fight left inside me, I am afraid I may have to give up soon.
I have seen ...
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thing I have ever gone to, next to killing them. The guilt is overwhelming some nights. I can’t even stand to look at myself sometimes. I feel like a different person, a bad person. The guilt is even worse when it is your buddy. I’ve spent months on end with these men, fighting beside them. They had my back, and I had theirs. I’ve shared my life with them, and they did the same. There was this one day, I was in the trenches, and Jimmy was sent out to fix the barbed wire out in no man’s land. I looked away for one minute, I didn’t even see it coming… God dammit, I was supposed to have his back Mary. If I would’ve been doing my job, paying attention, he would still be here. Instead, I looked away for one god damn second and he is gone, and I am stuck here. I am so scared, all the time. Any man, plane, tank, even a rat could kill me. I am always scared that it is my day to die. I think about you, and the kids, and it just breaks my heart that I could possibly never see you ...
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