Brothers in arms, your sisters covered you

Female veteran's lament becomes powerful song with help from Songwriting With Soldiers project
Democrat and Chronicle
Gary Craig
April 13, 2018

I was just like you when the bullets flewI had your back, you had mine tooBrothers in arms, your sisters covered youDon't that make us your brother too?

Meghan Counihan’s daughter was 6 months old when Counihan was deployed to Afghanistan.

The mother of three, Counihan found herself riven by a tug-of-war of emotions, beckoned by call and duty: one for country, the other of motherhood.

Her uncles were veterans, as was her father, who'd been an Army truck mechanic in Vietnam. The military lineage spoke to her — she, too, would drive a truck for the Army — as did the vows she'd made with others in her Army unit.

“You’ve made this promise to your country, and you’ve made this promise to sacrifice, and you’ve made this promise to these people,” she said.

But at her Colorado home, she had this effervescent infant — still cuddling, still growing, still needing.

“It’s really hard to walk out that door and keep going,” Counihan said. “I was still breastfeeding. To leave when that is going on, you have a physical, visceral reaction.”
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