late night reads

http://deadspin.com/enough-already-with-military-family-reunions-as-halftim-463992330

"My own two brothers did a total of three tours in Afghanistan and Qatar, and during those months my parents and I were consigned to that limbo where every casualty on the news, every bomb and every body, arrives as there-but-for-the-grace-of-God. You lower your head for the dead and on the same breath give thanks that it was someone else's brother this time. When they get home, an entire category of fear falls out of your daily life. In that way, war stops being personal."