Wife leaves war veteran

I was speaking to a war veteran who was teling us how he was greeted by his family on his return home—by not being home. He found out that his loving wife had left him along with his children for another man . He is now paying alimony and barely manages to meet his two kids once a week. The reason sighted was that he was not there by her side but somewhere else fighting.

That was one heck of a greet to a war hero. It reminded me of another poem I was enthrusted upon in childhood.

Here it is. What a contrast!!!!


Home They Brought Her Warrior Dead

Home they brought her warrior dead:
She nor swooned, nor uttered cry:
All her maidens, watching, said,
‘She must weep or she will die.’

Then they praised him, soft and low,
Called him worthy to be loved,
Truest friend and noblest foe;
Yet she neither spoke nor moved.

Stole a maiden from her place,
Lightly to the warrior stepped,
Took the face-cloth from the face;
Yet she neither moved nor wept.

Rose a nurse of ninety years,
Set his child upon her knee—
Like summer tempest came her tears—
‘Sweet my child, I live for thee.’

Alfred Lord Tennyson