January 24th, 2010 at 01:31am
I'm sorry that i'm just now reading this story
when it's... about 8 months old. lol
but i have to say this was the most
meaningful story i've read so far. I loved it to death.
The chapters about Matt telling Jayvee what happened
during his time being held against his will with the iraqi's
reminded me of a movie called Three Kings and i think it was
either a book or a movie called Fallen Angels (sometimes i think of books as movies and forget which is which lol)...
Anyway I say this story is a -how shall i put this?- FUCKING FANTASTIC STORY ?!?, yeah that is a very good way to decribe it =]
I have to say that I don’t remember a fan-fiction ever bringing me down to tears so thoroughly. Yesterday I cried myself to sleep pathetically. I just connected so well with the flow and characters of this story.
Not only was the writing amazing, I could just lose myself in the story and not tear my eyes away from it for hours at a time.
The way Jay handled everything and the way she was thinking felt so incredibly real. And then when Zacky died and then when she received the letter informing her that Matt was also KIA. I completely broke down.
I mean with Jimmy’s passing and the war still going on, I felt so shaken. I had to actually go and work on something to calm myself down. Because Jimmy’s death hit me so unbelievably hard, I just got really depressed and your story, especially when Zack died, because for a moment I felt like he really did.
After it was announced that he was death, (and after I calmed down for the umpteenth time) I reasoned with myself that somehow he must be still alive! For some reason, I thought of the elder woman he and his unit passed when infiltrating Haifa Street. I thought that maybe she would be the one to help him… Well, I was right about one thing – Matt being alive, but I did not expect the grueling injustice he received as a POW, I hated it, when he told Jay the story. I really did. I hate war so much. And to have to imagine a draft forced upon the people of the US, was so horrible…took my breath away…
The way Sarah had to have her baby alone and how deep into depression she fell after her husband’s death. How Jay had to struggle alone with being pregnant and having to take care of Alex and Amy. Everything just adding on, and on, and on until it all spilled over. Until she couldn’t handle it anymore. Those things added to the tension and sadness in the story. It was a really heavy and dark story, but I am extremely glad that it ended on a happier note.
I was so resoundingly happy when Alex said ‘Daddy’ when he opened the door. Just like Jay, my heart stopped. I imagined how I would feel if that happened and then as I read on and she didn’t believe what she was seeing, I really appreciated that. It made it all the more real. She didn’t just run into his arms and kiss him passionately, but it took her some time.
More than anything I absolutely LOVED the fact that you made Matt’s return home hard. I wasn’t expecting it at all and it took me by a pleasant surprise. I am really appreciative of things like these, details that make the action in the story believable. Like Matt’s recovery. I mean no normal person would get used to life at home after experiencing Hell thousands of miles away for two entire years.
And the letters…The letters were my favorite part of the story. The passion in the word,s the dry humor, the truth in them, just completely blew me away! Every time I saw that slanted writing, my heart fluttered. It was so amazing that your story was able to touch on such a deep emotional level.
I know this comment is incredibly scrambled, and words cannot really express the way I feel about it, but I just wanted you to know that I love this story, and I’ll be sure to come back and read it again some time.