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Weekly Contest #369
You were no goddamn hero. A brainwashed victim of a fascist, imperialist, racist war in which you, like all the others, were expendable pawns. Some, like a friend of yours whose story I learned about many years later in the unlikeliest of circumstances, lost a leg to a landmine. Irreversible, irreparable physical injuries. Others never even came home to hug their families again. Some wish they didn’t. You did. But I know you were in pain. The sort of inexplicable, in-the-back-of-your-head pain that makes you zone out at the dinner table and...
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