in service to a larger “good.” As opposed to the demands of a job (particularly one that involves skilled labor and often involves relatively straightforward problems and solutions), family life is difficult because personal relationships require certain amounts of compromise. Most people who have raised children will testify to the difficulty—if not outright impossibility—of exerting simple “control” over them: their reactions seem random and unpredictable. The “good” of the family can consume veterans’
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