I did everything I could to avoid being alone or having too much time to think.
There is no doubt but that Chris is a hero. He is exceptionally brave and loyal to the SEALs and his country. This man is not afraid of sacrificing his life if it is needed. However, people often underestimate how brave his wife, Taya, is. Though she is almost sick with worry, the woman tries to hide this fact from Chris not to make his life even more difficult than it already is. She does “everything” she can to “avoid being alone or having too much time to think,” for every time she stays alone she starts imagining horrors that can happen to her husband.
Isn’t religion supposed to teach tolerance?
Chris felt that he did not know "that much about Islam.” “Raised as a Christian,” he knew that there had been “religious conflicts for centuries.” Of course, he knew about Crusades, and he knew that there was “fighting and atrocities forever.” However, he also knew that “Christianity had evolved from the Middle Ages.” According to Chris, people he was fighting in Iraq were “fanatics” and that point of view did help him not to feel guilty of killing people.
War one day; piece the next.
“The transition from war to home” was “a shock.” “One day,” they had been fighting, “the next” they had crossed the river to al-Taqaddum and “started back for the States.” “War one day; piece the next.” Every time Chris came home, it was “weird.” “Especially in California.” “The simplest things” could easily upset him, for instance “the traffic.” He drove “aggressively” toward other driver, because that was the way how he did it in Iraq. Chris would also shut himself in “for about a week.” He guessed that was where Taya and he “started having problems.”
