“Well,” there is always that long awkward pause, “that’s just the life you chose.” When I hear this statement, I often want to follow up with a guttural yell. In the last four years with my husband, who is in …
Parley: Literary & Visual Arts – SITREP: Military Literary & Visual Arts – PPSC News: Link to The Paper
This literary publication honors the voices of military service members, veterans, and their families at Pikes Peak State College. The English Department works in collaboration with Military and Veterans Programs and various faculty and programs across the college to publish these pieces each Veterans Day.
“Well,” there is always that long awkward pause, “that’s just the life you chose.” When I hear this statement, I often want to follow up with a guttural yell. In the last four years with my husband, who is in …
Emotionally bereft, I focus on the technical aspects of traveling into Kuwait City, Kuwait, with several civilian-clothed soldiers on a contract bus driven by a Third Country National who doesn’t know the area well, either. The marketplace or the Souk …
Most of my life has revolved around the military. Both my grandfather, Thomas Henry Bond, and my dad, Thomas Henry Bond Jr., were submariners in the Navy. Now, my older brother Thomas Henry Bond 3rd is a Super Hornet fighter …