For 26 year old Jennifer Brennan, life had just been a dream up to the last year and a half or so, with basically everything going straight downhill when her husband's unit was called up to replace another unit returning from the Middle East. Her husband was a lieutenant, fulfilling his military obligation after having graduated from college on an ROTC scholarship. Gary, her husband, was not really a gung- ho military man but the ROTC program was a means of his financial ability to get through college. Jennifer knew that her husband was holding things inside, not wanting to worry her any more than necessary, for he was really fearful of getting killed on the front lines as several of those he had graduated with never made it back alive.