The Girls Come Marching Home Quotes

“Being a soldier in wartime is a sick profession. How is that when I hear the word "deployment", I am able to effortlessly flick a switch and shut off my family? Yet when I returned from deployment, there was no such switch to reconnect me to my children and parents? It doesn't equate. I don't get to pick up where I left off. I will have to rebuild.”
― Kirsten Holmstedt, The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in Iraq