Personal Narrative: My Brother In The Air Force

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I currently have a brother and a brother-in-law in the Air Force. My brother-in-law just returned not to long ago from a deployement and I had to say goodbye to my brother in Septemeber not knowing if I would ever see him again. My brother will be gone for about six months. I would say the one good thing about deployment today verses back then is the advancements in technology. There have been so many advancements in technology that we can video chat with our loved while they are deployed thousands of miles away. Odysseus and Penelope didn't get the luuxory of communication while he was away at war. She just had to hope that one day he would return and the rumors she was hearing were not true. Again I apologize for my extremely long post

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