Thank you for this. I'm a US Marine Corps vet who served in Vietnam and a few other such places over two decades. The trials, shared privations and horrors that we go through cannot be understood by either angels or demons if such mythical creatures even exist not can they be explained to those who have not experienced them. We do not begrudge them their serenity through lack of knowledge but ask only for patience as we stumble our way back to a version of reality that we can survive in.

The simplicity and poignancy of this work touched me deeply. I comrade carrying his brother who can no longer support himself through the cold and rain because that is what we do. While I think that the uniform indicates the Second World War it represents all such warriors throughout time. I grew up with men who served then and served with some as well who did not see their service in any different light than my own because we had all been to the gates of chaos together

In the name of very veteran I thank you.