The Flight Deck

This is what courage, honor and duty look like:

“The agony is in the loss of all the “small” things, which really aren’t small at all, like going to bed and waking up together, watching him sit on the floor and play with the dogs, day-to-day conversations about the grocery list and the news. Living with your best friend and love of your life is a beautiful thing and is made up of all those mundane details, and I will miss it all profoundly.

But you can’t feel sorrow like this without truly loving someone, and I figure, it’s worth it. I know it is, and I feel incredibly lucky to adore someone so much that his absence feels like a hole in my soul.”

If you’ve never read Rachel Lucas, now would be a good time to start.  The love of her life – Rupert (not his real name) – has been called up as part of the Guard Service and is currently going thru re-orientation training on an Army base somewhere. 

Over 10 years since he went inactive, Rupert was called back to serve – and he went even though it would interfere tremendously with the next stage of his education and career. 

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