It's been written to feel real, to take the reader into the moment and to feel what it might be like to experience it. I wrote it that way because so many people don't consider military people to have feelings, but they do; they're normal people with families back home that they miss, and may never see again. Even when they get home the fight generally doesn't end, and so I tried to touch on that as well, to give the reader an insight into the struggle, although without going through it a person will never really understand.
But the how it is presented wouldn't exactly be out of the way in considering it's influence on the reader's perspective.
It's been written to feel real, to take the reader into the moment and to feel what it might be like to experience it. I wrote it that way because so many people don't consider military people to have feelings, but they do; they're normal people with families back home that they miss, and may never see again. Even when they get home the fight generally doesn't end, and so I tried to touch on that as well, to give the reader an insight into the struggle, although without going through it a person will never really understand.
It was written to feel real.
And it did feel real. Very real, almost as though it was your personal story.