What my feature article will be about.

The topic I will talk about is a coming home that is typical of back to back tour veterans. When the main unit gets home there is a large amount of press and a huge amount of community support. The come home in the middle of the day, there is a bus of family and citizens who come out to say thak you and welcome the vet home; but when a veteran comes home after staying there is none of that. They come home in the quiet of the night to small local airports, greeted only by the ride home. On occasion there is a family waiting, but usually those with people waiting up at home dont offer to stay in a war zone longer then they have to. The picture that can be painted is sad and quiet, with a very poetic bravada that can only be cronicled by those who have experienced it. You can't express the raw emotion felt by these people unless you were there to share in it, to partake in the woefull happiness and quiet dignity of coming home from a place where they hated you.