I wait and wonder:
So much time has passed
Since duty called you away,
And life has changed us
In many ways Large and small;
We still love,
But has that love
Grown stronger
With time and distance?
I watch you deplane
With a leap of my heart.
You are whole,
You are home,
And I am so filled
With happy emotions
That tears trace down my cheeks.
Your eyes scan the crowd.
Finding mine,
Every other person
Fades away,
And, at long last,
I am in your arms,
And it is I
Who is whole,
Who is home.
Mushroom Cloud, a fact-based historical novel, is the first book of The First Strike Trilogy: USA and the Soviet Union are building nuclear arms for a face off in a potential nuclear war in the late 1950's and early 1960's.
An illustrated developmental history of the American military chemical and biological protective respirator for use against war agents, this work provides photographs of actual respirator specimens and several useful appendices, in addition to its en
Be safe,
Karen