Blog Post 20; The Love Remains

I have now herd from about three men what it is like to go through war. I have had all of these three presenters in school and each of them have held a place in my heart. Each story is different and takes place in different eras, but their is one thing that remains; the pain that is felt when that solider comes home. Weather they lost family or friends to war, the hurt, guilt, and terror of the lives they have taken, and lives lost along side them, always come home. In the novel Ceremony by Leslie Maramon Silko, we see the main character Tayo, a war veteran of World War Two, fighting with the P.T.s and the knowledge of war after coming home, and trying to fight off the pain he feels for all of his loved ones he has lost. Even those Tayo's case in special in some way that he watched his cousin die in a jungle and came home to find his uncle dead, the pain that Tayo feels follows any solider . There is a quote within Ceremony in which Tayo reminds himself that they are not totally gone. That his family and all the friends and people that died still love him, even after death, they are not gone from his heart. I think this paragraph is very important and something I think every solider read and anyone how griefs for loved ones, friend or family.

"The mountain could not be lost to them, because it was in their bones; Josiah and Rocky were not far away. They were close; they had always been close. And pulsing over him as strong as it had ever been. They loved him that way; he could still feel the love they had for him. The damage that had been done had never reached this feeling. This feeling was their life, vitality locked deep in blood memory, and the people were strong, and the fifth world endured, and nothing was ever lost a long as the love remained." (Silko 204)