John Englehardt — The Monarch Review

Confabulation, Day 4 – John Englehardt

Monday, April 22, 2013 14:56 — 0 Comments

I remember Emily coming back from the family service center at Fort Benning with a purse full of brochures. One was called “The Challenges of Deployment,” written by Dr. Bruce Bell, who warned me in the first sentence that saying goodbye to my wife wasn’t going to be as romantic as I imagined. “The list of opportunities for crushed hopes is a long one,” he wrote. I remember feeling upset that the army would assume romance is the troll of my imagination, not fear.