Timeless

I read one of the short stories Timeless by Christy De'on Miller. Pg. 239-249. Timeless is about a mother who's son had gone into the Marines and was in the war of Iraq. She didn't ever want to think that her son could die, or have a man confront her from the military and tell her the news at her front doorstep, or even imagine all the pain that would come with the loss; but it happened. Her son Aaron had died while in a firefight.

In her story she talked about the things Aaron and her had done together, and told some stories about how close their relationship was with each other. They would constantly say how they felt about each other. On one of the pages she said"...'No, I love you the mostest of the most.' 'I love you more than all the eyelashes in the world.' On and on we'd go." Pg. 244 They had wonderful memories together and now he was gone.

One of the connections I thought that was related to the book Fallen Angels was when some of the young men in Perry's squad had died, mainly when Jenkins died. Jenkins was very young and so was Aaron. He was only 21 when he had died. In Fallen Angels you never got to read about the families back in the world and how it affected them (which was mainly what this story was about) so the connection to me between the book and this short story would be the death and youthfulness.

The quote I picked was "By the grace of God I will join you some day. I'll meet the mystery of it all, too, and we will be together. How good it will be to see you again." Pg. 249

De'on didn't have much stuff that used to belong to him, but she did get his watch that he had on when he died. It lasted a couple of months and for some reason it had kept her going and it was something that was his. She would wear it on her wrist everyday in Baghdad time. Once the battery died she put it away in his box forever.

I think Timeless symbolizes that even though his time had died or run out their relationship was everlasting and that after death they would be together again.