Jack Wilder

Captured Jack Wilder

Love is never easy. It's especially difficult when you love a career Marine. I knew the risk when I said "I do", but I chose to love Thomas anyway. 

War took him from me, and now I'm alone. Struggling and desperate. There's no hope, no future. Just the endless cycle of day-to-day survival. But a letter returned will change all of that. 

Hope and companionship, and even love, often come from the last place you'd think to look, when you least expect it. 

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I was a lost, broken soul, a Marine tortured by the memories of what I'd endured. When I visited that old farmhouse in rural Texas, all I wanted to do was return the letter. Keep a promise. 

What I got was healing. Understanding. The chance to find a measure of peace when all I've ever known is war.

We both lost everything. But in each other, we found something worth fighting for.