A Lifetime of Days

Before the chaos, there was a time. Simple. Almost . . . perfect. The talk of war rippled throughout the United States. America chose to defend its soil against unprovoked attacks in the Pacific, while not soon after defying a monstrous dictator across the Atlantic. But war often overshadows the tiny spots that are not depicted on any map. They stand on the mountain ranges, the beaches, the deserts, and struggle up the numbered hills for what they believe in their heart is the right thing to do. R. Z. Brooks was just an ordinary spot. Crossing the Atlanticon the Queen Mary and training in Northern Ireland, he falls in love with a school teacher and plans to marry her after what everybody believes will be just few months of fighting. The power of religious and governmental strife brings a quick and confusing end to his Irish love. Months turned into years. and everything that he held to be true faded into the ashen-gray skin of his dead friends. Chased in his sleep by the ghosts of his past. he must learn to live each day and take them one at a time.