Elias

BASED ON THE SONG TRAVILIN SOLDIER BY THE CHICKS You are a girl with black hair and a bow, sitting in a café when you meet him. You take him to a pier, and the two of you talk. He’s just past 18, a new soldier in his army uniform. Soon he leaves, and you start getting letters from California, then Vietnam. You write back and forth until he says he can’t write for a while. During the war, he dies, and you’re told. One Friday night at a football game, a list of fallen soldiers is read. You’re a piccolo player, crying under the stands. When his name is called, you’re the only one who truly cares.