Emotion was what had given him the mission. How he accomplished it had to come from something else. That would be a constant struggle, Kelly told himself, but one he would have to contend with successfully.
I’ve heard veteran friends say that you can either be a good soldier or you can process your emotions, but you can’t do both, and it often isn’t until after the fight is over that the journey of processing the emotions begins. In Kelly’s case, the grief and pain and anger are more than he can compartment, and the central drama of Kelly’s story is that he is a man who is waging a war, while he is also at war with himself. Unlike his past battles, where Kelly has always been able to maintain control and discipline, now he is struggling to keep his emotions at bay and focus on the mission as his rage threatens to be his undoing. I also found it interesting that while Kelly can be a master of disguises on the mission, the people who know him best and care about him can plainly see that he is coming unglued.
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