If travel was free, you would never see me again. I’d not be arrested, I’d be forced to seek treatment for PTSD. A one-time sick leave of absence from the military would be too late. I could have become unemployed, and had some comfort knowing that I would have never been accused of domestic abuse. It’s not that I don’t have the strength of character to cope, it’s that I never had the courage to come forward. The laws and the regulations were tight. I had to file all requests directly to the military, which meant that I was not allowed to have the property and to go back to work. I was forced to resign from my position as a nurse in the Army. Like so many husbands, I fell victim to the trot. For women like me, the truckman isn’t the trump card in the set. We are crazy, we run the risk, we are not civilized, it is what. So if my aunt tried to gag me, or smother my sisters, or beat them, we would be called out, and we would give chase. We could not stop the attack. This was not about t