Thanks mate, I appreciate your kind words. I wasn't sure where this would go. I planned it in my head and smashed it out in a little over ten minutes then proof read it. It came out ok. With more time I would have elaborated on the emotion but I didn't have the time.

I've lost mates to PTSD over the years so that's why I added that but, out of respect to them, and I wanted to end it on an up as that's what I'd like my mates to feel in real life; That there is an option, life doesn't have to be so dark.

The father son thing...I'll never be a father so I won't feel it, maybe that's where it came from? I'm a son though, and despite recently losing my dad he'll always be my dad. So, that's where that sort of originated. I could have gone anywhere with this...I mean most have piles of images on the fridge door right? I know I do. I chose to take it down this path through, I liked the emotional and personal nature of it.

Clearly the dad/son part hits close to home for you, and I'm not surprised, as an American, that you have known mates who experienced similar wartime events. IED's are deadly, one is at the mercy of fate where they concerned mostly.

I'm glad you liked it man, I was hoping someone did.