Exit
from a comfortable postwar suburban life, to one dedicated to the veterans who crowd through her door.
Some force seems to bind those
who are back from war, no matter
how long it’s been, a magnetism
that transcends color and income
and education and status, drawing servicemen and women back…
to service.
No one comes back from a war
zone the same. Well before the
end of her year in the combat
zone, the well-behaved, obedient
young Marsha had evaporated in
the heated intensity of war. In her
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