Redemption

Imagine: you’re the All-American boy: Accomplished and awarded high school athlete, a great student, wonderful son, loyal friend. You follow your father’s example and join the Marines, then spend two and a half years immersed in clandestine warfare in Cambodia and Laos, when no U.S. troops were supposed to be there. You watch friends and foe die ghastly deaths or suffer terrible wounds. Some by your efficient hands. While in the midst of this war you are summoned home to attend the funeral of both of your parents, killed in a tragic accident. After the funeral, the love of your life, your high school sweetheart tells you she’s moving on. So, you return to the war. You suffer wounds to the body and mind. The body healing, leaving scars, but the wounds to the mind are sliced deep and picked at by recurring nightmares, waking you in cold sweats. Unwanted memories festering on. Discharged from the Corps, you return to a country where many thought of you as a criminal. You return to your home town in a last ditch effort to redeem a nugget of your past life. A life with unresolved issues.
This is where Jon Marzetti’s story begins.