The enduring price of war

Jerral Hancock was driving a tank in Iraq. A roadside bomb pierced the armor, breaching the interior. Jarral lives in Lancaster with his two, beautiful children

Found at American Digest, which asks,

At some point you have to ask,

“Just what has been done,

Just what has been won,

That’s worth the suffering of our sons?”

See more, if you can bear it, at: What Veterans Look Like After A Decade Of War In The Middle East

And this does not include the veterans who bear mental scars. Those, of course, have always been a cost of war, as letters and memoirs dating back to Civil War soldiers show.

God be with them, every one.