My mom is scared for him.  Dad is too.  I worry about them both, Mom and Dad.  Dad has stopped sleeping, has started taking pills to drug him up, knock him out beyond the nightmares.   And then there's mom too, she's started crying whenever she sees something on the TV, or in the newspaper, anything about the lives over there being lost.  Mom lost two of her brothers back in Vietnam.   The first came home in pieces, the second came home alive and breathing, but left his mind somewhere back in the field.  She takes Prozac now.  

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