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There was a man saying he would make them into men…

One went to carry the fallen to their final resting place…
The other went to a country I couldn't find on a map, to fight for people he had never even met…

We were here hoping that the knock on the door or the phone ringing on the wall was for him, not about him...

Hoping that the next time my brothers saw each other that one wasn't lowering the other into the ground while his commanding officer gave our mother a perfectly folded triangle of white stars on a blue field…

Hoping with all my might that in this story there would be no need for smooth white pebbles that moonlight would dance upon to light the path, or the scattering of bread crumbs that birds would eat almost as soon as they were dropped…

Hoping they wouldn't need either to find their way back because they had never left…
But knowing that, in this story, they were the ones lost in the woods.

Hoping that "Once upon a time" hadn't started yet because they still had more time…