Скачать или смотреть 17 Chilling Facts About the Soldier Who Came Back Silent — And Stayed That Way

There is a particular kind of silence that does not belong to peace. It is not the silence of a sleeping house, or the silence of a winter morning after snow. It is the silence of a man sitting at a table with his hands in his lap, staring at a wall that no longer interests him, breathing so quietly and so steadily that you sometimes need to watch his chest just to confirm that he is still alive. That is the silence that entered the Aldren household in the spring of 1919 — and that is the silence we are here to examine tonight.
Wherever you are watching this — whatever city, whatever room, whatever hour of the night — take a moment and consider what it would mean to share a home with that silence. To pass it in the hallway every morning. To set a plate in front of it. To say good night to it and receive nothing in return.