Status Updates From Hero

"He stopped a distance away, got into the back seat of his car, reached down, pulled his AR-15 rifle from under the black mat on the floor, lowered his window, rested the rifle on the door, and looked through the scope.'

"It’s what we want above all other wants, and we’re right to. But over time, heat burns. It leaves us with scars and calluses, so we’re thicker-skinned and tougher, but less able to feel than we were when we were young and first stepped into the fire.”