Review: Trent and Laura's story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2014
....one of the best stories I have read concerning the terror, tension, stress and anguish of coming home from war, from the military----from the insanity of war.Jessica Scott has captured the essence of what it means to be a serviceman in the military, specifically the USArmy. She writes of the politics of rank, the devotion to duty, of trying to do the right thing in spite of the chaos of armed combat and the complexity of civilian day-to-day life.And she also writes about love...A military spouse, or wife in most cases, is a jack of all trades, and a master of multitasking. A military wife has responsibilities of house and job doubled with children in hand while the serviceman is caught up in the duties he shoulders when signing on the dotted line for Uncle Sam. She supports his refuge, his home, all the little nips and tucks of life as it happens every day on the home front.But when the physical trauma and psychic wounds of war explode into the soldier's life, he is not alone in his suffering---it doubles and triples in a wave outward from the epicenter of violence, written on bodies, left as scars both visible and mental---on men, women, children, all who serve in the Armed Forces and those who love and care for them.Jessica Scott has written a heart-wrenching story of friendship and loyalty, of determination and disappointment and desperation, of stubborn fear, of stubborn love...This is about Capt. Trent Davila, betrayed by his Lieutenant and subordinates, about to be divorced by his wife Laura, old wounds scarring his body and rigid with survivor's guilt; he has just one burning thought in his mind as he returns home: how to ask for a second chance in love from his weary, wronged and lonely wife Laura.It is enough to witness their journey, to pay attention to their struggle in marriage, to understand how life demands much, governments demand much, relationships demand much---but we make the choices about what matters most in our lives...Each of us, every day.