Wind Chime Wedding (A Wind Chime Novel Book 2) by Sophie Moss

Author:Sophie Moss [Moss, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Sea Rose Publishing
Published: 2015-06-30T07:00:00+00:00

Standing on the lawn of the Maryland State House the next day, waiting for his father to deliver his speech, Colin couldn’t help feeling a rush of pride. It had been a long time since he’d felt any real pride in his work. He wished the announcement about the jobs program didn’t have to come so close on the heels of the news about the school closing, but maybe it would help the public understand that those budget cuts hadn’t been for nothing.

In politics, there were always sacrifices, and while he didn’t want to sacrifice the island school, there was a reason those funds had been moved around—to help veterans. As angry as he’d been at finding Jimmy Faulkner passed out in a drunken haze the day before, it had helped shift everything back into focus. Alcoholism was something a huge number of veterans struggled with in this country.

Late at night, when Colin lay in bed remembering the faces of his fallen teammates, it was the friends he’d lost back home whose faces haunted him the most. Death at war, as awful as it was, he could wrap his head around. But the guys who died back home, the ones who went over the edge when they returned to their families, their hometowns, the country that had asked them to serve in the first place, those were the ones who kept him up at night.

They should have been treated like heroes, not left to suffer in silence.

He had joined the SEALs straight out of college because he’d been a senior at Columbia University in 2001. He’d seen the Twin Towers go down in New York. He’d seen the devastation, the horror, the fear reflected in the faces of his fellow Americans, and he’d wanted revenge.

He’d gotten it—four tours of it—in dry, sandy places SEALs rarely deployed to before the War on Terror. He’d worked alongside Marines and Army platoons in Fallujah and Ramadi, fast roped into the mountains of Afghanistan in helicopters flown by both Navy and Special Operations Aviation Regiment pilots, ran ops with coalition forces from several European countries. Before the end of his second tour in Iraq, he had already begun to earn the reputation of being one of the SEALs deadliest snipers.

But it wasn’t the number of kills or an addiction to the adrenaline rush that had him re-upping his contract year after year. For the first time in his life, he’d felt like he’d belonged to something, like he’d been part of something bigger than himself. As a SEAL, he’d had a purpose, not only to gather intelligence and take out key targets, but also to protect his fellow teammates—teammates who had been more of a family to him than his own ever had.

As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan had dragged on, and the people back home had begun to question their reasons for still being over there, for him, it had always come down to the same thing—the guys on his team. As long as they were still there, as long as they were still fighting, he wanted to be with them.

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