Coming Home Different: When Your Parent Returns Home Changed from Combat

EDITOR'S NOTE TO PARENTS: THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN FOR TEENS OF A PARENT OR PARENTS WHO HAVE RETURNED HOME FROM U.S. MILITARY DEPLOYMENT WITH SERVICE-ACQUIRED COGNITIVE OR PHYSICAL DISABILITIES. WE RECOMMEND SHARING THIS ARTICLE WITH THESE CHILDREN AND ALLOWING THEM TO READ ABOUT SOME HELPFUL SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO COPE WITH THIS DIFFICULT ADJUSTMENT TO THEIR LIVES. When I was a child and teenager, my mother and I made dates of watching movies together. She loved the black and white classics. I grew to appreciate them after much insistence. One of those "tears and tissue" movies that we watched was Coming Home. The movie followed the coming home of a paralyzed Vietnam War veteran and the woman who lovingly cares for him.