A person can make many choices in their life, how it turns out is what choice one makes. My sons have made some bad ones, hopefully they will learn from their mistakes. I made so many bad choices in my life; I only wish I could do them over again. But you learn by making mistakes. Sean and Danny's lives will forever be altered by their bad selections. Sean will have lost almost 6 years of watching his little girls grow up, at least Danny is only facing 15% of his 5 years. He hopefully he will be home by August of this year. No one has ever said life is easy or fair. Life is what you make it. Like Sinatra said in song, "I've got the world on a string, setting on a rainbow' , at one time that was me. I had it all, I thought there was no end to it, but a bad choice ruined it all. As I sit here pondering over my life. I truly know now, that this was for me, "The Long Journey Back".
Then there was the difficult journey home, and everything that has come after. But it's more than that; it's been one struggle after another to get back our lives, to find our place again. It's been a long journey back, back from war ...
First Published in 2011 by: Pneuma Springs Publishing A Long Journey Back Copyright © 2011 Chris R. Pownall Chris R. Pownall has asserted his right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as Author of this ...
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