After the Return

It is odd to fins yourself back in the US after being deployed. It feels surreal. The sights, the sounds the hussle and bussel takes your senses by a storm. I remember thinking, " I am just not readyh for all the people, the crowds the questions".
It must have been even stranger for the girls in my book, " In Iraq They Say it's Safe Inside The Wire. That's a lie". Having deployed with a foot loose and free way of to return home pregnant and alone. The fathers  (sperm donors) who were responsible for the pregnancies, were still deployed. These women were sent home, alone.
Going home alone, pregnant, knowing that you would be having a baby with no one by your side must have been traumatic. The other issue that these girls had to face is that the father were married or in relationships that were established.
These men had a wife at home who was sending them care packages and pictures of the children. The wives didn't know that their husbands were sharing the care packages with a war lover.The deceit was only becoming more and more complicated. As the men had to play the game of hide and seek. Hide the truth of what they were doing from the real world, which was the family back home, seeking the comfort of the bed of the girls they were using as sperm receptacles in Iraq.
It isn't any wonder that these men did not want what they were doing to come to life. Imagine the fallout from their wives. The wives would be heart broken soon enough, how did the men intend to keep the birth of thier illegitimate child a secret? The lies were frequent and I imagine very creative.
I wonder how these couples could look at each other knowing that their relationship was built on lies and deceit? The eventual outcome would of course be betrayal on all sides.