really go through when veterans either return back home from war or even worse, get killed fighting in the war. It is as if our veterans return back home as completely different people because they are so drained physically, emotionally, and mentally. They become so traumatized by the military and personal actions that they have done, such as dealing with the fact that they killed people and the excessive feelings of regret that come with killing people. Because of these things, the family members and veterans have a hard time adjusting and dealing with a number of emotional war wounds, both internally and externally.
             However, even though both texts have very similar purposes, the authors talk from completely different point of views, which allows the reader to see the emotional struggles from both the veterans and family members themselves. For example, in "Gold Star" Fallon talks from the point of view of a wife who has just lost her husband due to the war. Throughout the whole story Josie, the wife, is reminiscing about her husband and trying to hold on to every memory that she can because she fears that she will forget him. It was like she wanted to be with her husband just one last time. She wanted it so bad that she searched for the same dusty smell her husband once smelled of, but nothing. She couldn't find that same warm comfort that her husband once gave her, and by the end of the story she finally realized that her husband was really truly gone forever. Fallon used this approach very strategically in order to capture the reader inside the passionate feelings that Josie had for her husband. In doing so, the reader is easily able to connect and really recognize that war can, by the same token, emotionally affect family members of veterans. On the other hand, in "Iraq, Afghanistan War Veterans Struggle With Combat Trauma," Wood gives the reader the total opposite point of view. He writes from the poin...