and God help the poor bastard that broke them. By this time tragedy had struck the Clayton household as Johns dad has passed away earlier in the year. He had Alzheimer’s and for the last few months of his life the quality of it was horrible. His mom couldn’t care for her husband and she had a whole host of medical problems herself. They had hired a homecare nurse to help with his care, but by the time he passed John reasoned it was time. One of the things that surprised Mel was that John showed absolutely no emotion when his dad passed away. She talked to him about it and all he said was that he saw it coming awhile back and he had time to think about it then and grieve about it months ago, so when his dad did pass he was ok with it, he was in a better place now. Mel wasn’t sure that’s how he really felt; she had an idea his service in the Army made him feel certain ways about death. When she had found out about his past she secretly read everything she could about Army Special Forces and Delta which made her even more proud to think her husband could go through all that. She recalled that she had read once that the men learned how to compartmentalize their emotions when a man was killed so they could continue the mission, if they didn’t do that they would become emotional wrecks.
