"Zach was still sending me occasional texts like nothing had changed. Ignoring him wasn’t enough for me anymore." When I got out of the Army, I had big plans to go back to college on the G.I. Bill, finish my degree in political science, and start working in the world of political journalism. But like so many plans and intentions, life did what it does and changed them. My wife became pregnant with our first child and suddenly my silly daydreams about being a writer who followed in the footsteps