by TRL

Created on: March 20, 2009   Last Updated: March 24, 2009

An innocent man dies at the hands of an angered citizen who has chosen life as a criminal for whatever reason. The innocent victim's family spends ample amounts of time and money hiring lawyers, attending court hearings, taking time-off from work, even spending time in family therapy and the costs of prescription medicine used to treat new conditions of stress, anxiety and severe depression.

This family's extra expense and time is all due to the ill-mannered action of a soon to be convict. As the family starts the healing process to overcome their pain and suffering; the future convict's life remains unchanged minus the exception that he will now live behind bars. This convict will be housed, fed, clothed, and depending on his sentence, he might even be given opportunities for employment, education, as well as physical and social activity; all funded at the expense of the victim's family's taxes and the tax money the government collects from non-criminal, working class citizens .

An innocent soldier bids farewell to his family and boards the plane for another country; he is ready to put into action his chosen trained profession not knowing when he will return, if ever. Trained to fight and destined to prevail, his courage is empowered by his dedication to defend his country. A strategic journey that takes him across oceans and blue skies into the sands of time with a small hut that awaits him where food rations will become his meals. Rainy nights bring misery and tiny cots are one source for his sleepless nights; the intense feeling of peril surrounding his every move, his other. A call rings in, it's late at night; his wife answers the phone.

It is the call she prayed she would never receive; the sad news is delivered regarding the duty of her husband's service to his country. Disbelief engulfs her, reality hasn't set in, but the worst is yet to come. The children, snuggled in their warm beds, continue to sleep peacefully until the morning comes. Peace that the soldier crossed oceans to fight for becomes a similar fight inside his home. Friends and family now fight to find peace from this loss? Another fallen soldier with a family left to pick up the pieces, but never to forget how he died for his country at the hands of the enemy. He is an American hero, this will never go unnoticed, but, parting his country where his freedom, was his own, doesn't seem worth parting knowing his children will grow up without a father and the heavy crusade his family and friends

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