Cheryl

It’s unreal, like a movie, or photos in the newspaper, or Hollywood
actors, although I know that’s not true, not really, but it’s easier, safer,
to think of them as fake soldiers touched up with makeup, red-dye
blood, it is easier, was easier, to pretend the war is a movie, but I know
it’s real, because Phil’s real, and his letters are real, and now I wish I’d
been paying more attention to all the Gunthers and Phils on the news,
and I’ve decided to spend six months allowance on books of tickets for
Disneyland and I’m going to tear out all the “E” tickets for Phil. ...