Blue-Tail Fly

Darling Wife

36 Darling Wife, I was there for emergencies and there were always emergencies. In this first month I have found a true thing—larger than myself or us, more than the fields I never did love—I am a good soldier. Not an officer. I don’t want to be an officer. I am not the head to send feet over the rise. I want instead to rise as one of many. I will have a story to fill a man’s journal for years—a story in your hands to tell the children and the grandchildren to come and those after them. Yours Alone. Pvt. ___________ ...