the-chosen-pessimist

I don't remember much about my dad he died when I was pretty young. Ma says he died over seas and a lot of people are alive because of him but she still misses him, I wish I remembered him enough to miss him as much as she does. I was going through some old photos with Ma today, I found a box in the back that we didn't open yet. There was an old picture of mom, dad, our dog and me. We were all in our back yard my dad had me in his arms and in his uniform...we looked so much a like even then. Well at least that's what mom said. I guess that box I found the other day was all the pictures and some other things that mom kept of dad's before he

"What do you think happens when you die." The tall skinny private asked as he dealed the cards out to his fellow soldiers who all sat around the table in the medical tent far from the trenches where some of the people they had trained with were fighting in the front lines. "Jesus man again with this bullshit." The medic asked having grown tired of the question. He'd heard it from all the poor kids who'd been brought in to him a few minutes too late sometimes after he'd done all he could, sometimes he over heard it as a few other medics were carrying him away on a stretcher. It didn't matter his answer would always be the same 'I don't know bu