AmericaAmerica When Will You See

This fiercely told story using a mix of prose and poetry will surely go down as one of the most blistering anti-war literary works of our time. It follows a soldier from the day he must return to Iraq for his third tour. His tender parting love for his woman is followed by a long and unflinching look at what happens in the heat of combat, and the devastating consequences of alcoholism and PTSD that combat can produce. It is hard to think of any battle description that comes as close as this one to realities our troops face every day in Iraq, The third part is a sad elegy when his wife receives a flag and his medals as her only tokens of their love. Nothing else of him remains. She is forced into the numbing bureaucracy of the welfare system. When she finds that she is pregnant by her man, she descends into utter despair as she faces the horrible choice of poverty on one hand and abortion on the other. In an exquisite scene of redemption and hope for the future, she tells society to go to hell, she will have that child. The final dozen words of love and hope redeem the long list of awfulness that went before. This is a work that will easily have you in tears, even if you are a combat vet who has already seen all this way too many times.