The War Has Come Home
The most significant improvement to the show comes from cutting away from Teonna Rainwater. There may come an episode much like this one that will tie her story into the overall narrative, but for now, it only takes away from Duttons' story.
The War Has Come Home
As I've said before, it's a story that deserves to be told, but it should come the same way we'll be revisiting 1883 with the Bass Reeves Story. The Rainwater legacy is worthy of an entire series dedicated to its telling.
Those possibilities paid off tenfold, as the two create a passionate love story that matches some of the best TV has had to offer. Taylor Sheridan has a knack for these tales, and Spencer and Alex will be sorely missed when this chapter comes to a close.
When Alex was teasing Spencer about crawling out of the American wilds, going to America was the furthest thing from her mind. But after tragedy struck at the Yellowstone, Spencer -- and his fiancee with him -- is being called home.
Sadly, that will likely be the last truly carefree moment of their young lives, as the reverie was interrupted when Banner's men attacked the family on their way home, holding nothing back, gleefully shooting even at the women.
It was practically otherworldly how they were attacked with so little regard for those who had done nothing to deserve it. Not even thinking of the Duttons for a moment, how does Banner reconcile what he's done with his home life and forging a new path in America?
Emma was stuck numb at the loss of her husband. She wandered right into the fray without fear or purpose. She just moved without thinking. When they arrived home, the injured were rushed into the house for aid, but Emma stayed in the wagon with her husband, neither joining him nor looking back.
They've all known about the dangers of the west, and as it becomes more difficult to survive, the strongest will live, and the weak will die. That's why Jacob didn't want the sheriff called. The last thing they need to do is announce they're left without strong leadership.
Spencer, your brother has been killed. By the time you receive this letter, I suppose your uncle has been killed, as well. Your nephew has been wounded. This ranch and your legacy are in peril. War has descended upon this place and your family. Whatever war you fight within yourself must wait. You must come home and fight this one.
And for those remaining Americans, there is no deadline. We remain committed to get them out if they want to come out. Secretary of State Blinken is leading the continued diplomatic efforts to ensure a safe passage for any American, Afghan partner, or foreign national who wants to leave Afghanistan.
To those asking for a third decade of war in Afghanistan, I ask: What is the vital national interest? In my view, we only have one: to make sure Afghanistan can never be used again to launch an attack on our homeland.
Though many of these values have come under intense pressure in recent years, even pushed to the brink in the last few weeks, the American people are going to emerge from this moment stronger, more determined, and better equipped to unite the world in fighting to defend democracy, because we have fought for it ourselves.
Later that night, Jack, Elizabeth and others head to a secret speakeasy after giving the password "umbrellas." Elizabeth seems amazed by the representation of the roaring '20s. It's been alluded to in previous episodes, but finally in this episode, Jack and Elizabeth become intimate, seemingly for the first time, not long before their marriage.
At the very end of the episode, Cara speculated in her letter to her nephew that Jacob will be dead by the time he receives it, but it's possible given Jacob's knack for surviving death, that he may manage to overcome his injuries.
Audiences have seen Spencer use the rope a number of times already, but its significance hasn't really been shown. We can only assume this means that the rope will come into play further down the line and be used to get Spencer out of the stickiest of situations.
Our party also visited what is left of Frankfurt and Darmstadt. We flew over the remains of Kassel, Magdeburg, and other devastated cities. German women and children and old men were wandering over the highways, returning to bombed-out homes or leaving bombed out cities, searching for food and shelter.
The Soviet Union, before she had been informed of our new weapon, agreed to enter the war in the Pacific. We gladly welcome into this struggle against the last of the Axis aggressors our gallant and victorious ally against the Nazis.
As the winter comes on, the distress will increase. Unless we do what we can to help, we may lose next winter what we won at such terrible cost last spring. Desperate men are liable to destroy the structure of their society to find in the wreckage some substitute for hope. If we let Europe go cold and hungry, we may lose some of the foundations of order on which the hope for worldwide peace must rest.
The world will note that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, insofar as possible, the killing of civilians. But that attack is only a warning of things to come. If Japan does not surrender, bombs will have to be dropped on her war industries and, unfortunately, thousands of civilian lives will be lost. I urge Japanese civilians to leave industrial cities immediately, and save themselves from destruction.
Its production and its use were not lightly undertaken by this Government. But we knew that our enemies were on the search for it. We know now how close they were to finding it. And we knew the disaster which would come to this Nation, and to all peace-loving nations, to all civilization, if they had found it first.
Note: The President returned to Washington on August 7. He was welcomed by members of the Cabinet on his arrival at the White House at 11 p.m., after traveling by special train from Newport News where he had disembarked that afternoon.
The person coming back from war is likely to become socially isolated for a number of reasons. One is that if they do suffer from a loss of authority over anger, it's not that they've lost their conscience, it's not that they don't care who they hurt. If they're afraid of their own anger, their first impulse is to run and hide. And I know as a fact that a lot of the veterans who end up living in basements and in attics or out in the woods -- almost complete isolation from everyone -- many of them are doing that not to protect themselves but to protect us. Because they're afraid that they're gonna lose control of their anger. And so that's one big reason for veterans to isolate.
But there's also the fact that many are emotionally numb, and they don't know how to negotiate relationships in the face of this numbness. And if you can imagine having no feelings -- even in the workplace, you have to have emotions to be able to negotiate the workplace. So they feel like they've been dropped in from Mars. The chasm of understanding between a civilian and someone who's come back from war is so enormous that the veteran can feel like, you know, "I'm green and I have two heads," and go and hide because they feel so freakish.
Before guys actually come home, primarily our Chaplain Corps has what they call a Warrior Transition Group, and they talk about "expect the unexpected." ... They've been through some pretty harrowing experiences together. They have been in a small group, for the most part about 40 guys, and that group becomes extremely close. Sometimes, because you're there 24 hours a day, seven days a week with those same people, you create a bond that is as strong as any family tie could ever be, and most of the time stronger. And you become very dependent on each other.
And also because you've gone through similar experiences together, when you talk to somebody, they know what you're talking about, and they can relate to it. Frequently I use [an] example: Before I left, I found a thermometer that read 140.8 degrees Fahrenheit, and when you get home and you try to explain to some[one] what 140 degrees [is], [what] wind with sand coming at you is, they don't understand. There's no way they can relate to it unless they've actually been there. ...
Now, what happens when guys come home is that they sometimes hold that stuff up and keep it in their head, and they don't really talk about it until they get home. And then if they're married, they try to tell their wives about it, and they start dumping all this stuff on the spouse. So the spouse goes, "Well, you know, that was really horrible, but gosh, let me tell you what happened at the office today and what so-and-so said about me; that was really awful, too." And [it's] apples and oranges. ...
Another problem that is commonly experienced when troops return home from an extended deployment in a place like Iraq is that they experience outbursts of anger. It occurs in Iraq, and it's usually settled down. But Marines yell at each other, and they're kind of a violent group, so it's not so abnormal for them, especially in a hostile environment. But when they come home and they're with their families, and they're used to yelling and screaming and hollering and things of that nature, if they start doing it at home, it can make some major ripples in a family unit. ...
We try and help them be prepared for that and be flexible in their expectations. We talk to them about the importance of communications and communicating with a spouse. It's not that you have to come home and tell your spouse in great detail everything that happened to you in the whole year on the first day. But keep communicating about whatever you can communicate about.
Tell me about the post-deployment health assessment that the military requires soldiers to complete before they go home. Is it possible that soldiers are answering that everything is OK with them, when, in fact, it's not?
That may happen. That's human nature. They've left the theater, so they're kind of away from the stresses ... and they're headed home. So they've got a couple of reasons why they might not look at their experience in theater with the same eyes that they looked at it a month ago. That's just human nature. Still, we need to get that information down, as much as we can, soon after it's happened. 041b061a72