My Father In Law Said Nobody Invited Me Until Someone Pulled Into The Driveway

Linda and Derek, sat in his garage one night holding a framed photograph of Brandon in his boot camp uniform. The one taken before Fallujah. Before the leg. Before everything that came after. He sat there with the photograph for two hours. He did not say anything.

In early February I received a handwritten letter in the mail. The postmark said Tucson.continue reading …