Welcome Home
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend A tribute to all of those who served their country then came home to just blend in. The ones who went to work raised families and never told their children the stories. Product details and pricing info |
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15 Customer Reviews Posted
- The Real Thing
- After reading Welcome Home, I can tell you that Edd Voss is the Real Thing. The real deal. A man who writes with great emotion - which I respect. Of course most of you already know that. I'm way, way late to the party here and I don't understand it. I don't understand what the hell took me so long to read one of Edd's stories is what I mean. I'm also sure most of you are saying 'Well Duh, of course he writes good stories.' I can assure you one thing, it won't be the last I read. I'm sold.
This story had it all in my opinion; tenderness, love, courage, honor, memories and family. I didn't want it to be over. I actually read slower towards the end. Very enjoyable and well crafted. Excellent. Five stars for Mr. Voss. - Jim Wilsky. - 2007-12-10, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Home is where the right telling at the right time emerges easily, sometimes through caring curiosity.
- The warmth in Jim's heart for his wife, expressed at the opening scene of "Welcome Home" came across like a bear hug of healing force. Later, the scene with his son which opened the sharing of Jim's Vietnam memories was tenderly addressed.
Voss seems to be able to give just the right amount of detail in lightly expanded vignettes, to paint the picture and ease up emotion:
>> "Sure, Dave, I'm done here. What's on your mind?" Jim asked leaning back in his chair. Dave sat down on the edge of a small couch that was against the opposite wall. He leaned forward with is hands clasped between his knees, his head slightly bowed.... Jim told his son of how people had already decided what it was like in Viet Nam on their own and how anyone who stood up and said "No that's not what I saw," was either ignored or called a liar. So some had just told people what they wanted to hear, and others chose to be silent. <<
A touching tale told by a sensitive man is a gift to behold. Better yet, it's a story to read. Again Voss gave an ending I hadn't precisely anticipated. But, it was the exact ending this caring catharsis and teary title required.
This isn't sentimentalism, it's a sentimental schism, allowing gaps in the past to be filled with hearth fires in the present. Read "Welcome Home" to know how healing can be easy, especially at the right time and place, with loving human connections.
This was Edd Voss's first Amazon Short, providing a solid preface for his style of getting you where you need to be to see something he wants you to see. Maybe we should all work to have this type of warmth in our homes, to thaw the chilled parts of our journeys, to make them a history to remember right, and cherish what's left.
Well done, Voss,
Linda Shelnutt - 2007-07-17, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- A Generation's Struggle
- Seldom have ten pages plunged me deeper into tears than this eloquently simple tribute by Edd Voss.
I was instantly transported back many years...to airports mainly. The green class A's and heavy green bags. The tears of men who had done no more than answer the call to arms...just as we were taught we should do from the time we could walk.
The tears of years later when deserters and men who'd left their buddies in the lurch had their discharges changed to honorable. The years when it looked as if the only fools were the ones who could be counted upon. The ones who obeyed their orders...who didn't frag their officers or gun down villagers. Who reported back when they were supposed to and moved out in country when they were supposed to.
A draft dodger became president of the United States...he had even gone to Russia to make good his escape. Tears tears tears...a world turned upside down...where uniforms and medals were tossed overboard or stuffed into trash cans...the draft dodger's evil smirk presiding over all of it.
Edd Voss took me there and many more places besides. Edd's vet was very fortunate...a loving wife...a nice home and business...a wonderful son. He had locked it all away, but his loving famiy was determined to do him the honor he so richly deserved.
So now the draft dodger's embittered wife is going to be president, but there is still some justice in the world. Yes, I cried for Edd's vet but they were tears of joy...those two little words that just meant so much....
Remember the day we watched as the sacrifice of honorable service was reduced to helping the politicians make a clean getaway from the roof of that embassy...each of us remembering one or more of the over 50,000 who would never be coming back?
Thank you, Edd, for doing a great job of doing honor to our generation...the very best within it. - 2007-07-17, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I loved this story, I loved the father and I loved his son !
- Having already read Edd Voss's book 'A Tree For America." and other stories, I know that most of the things he writes about, are of his own lived experiences-- as a Truck Driver and a Veteran! But reading this last one, brought tears to my eyes, and I only wish that many Vietnam Veterans would get to see and read it as well; Though it would be a small recompense for the shameful ways they were treated in the U.S. after their return from the Hell that was Vietnam .
Pierrette L Komarek.
Author of "Le Cafe'de Cadix" and "Grandmêre's Awesome Family Cookbook." - 2007-04-18, 2 of 2 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Very Touching
- "Welcome Home" touched a very deep part of me, because there isn't one among us that doesn't want to be accepted for who and what we are despite our experiences. I absolutely love the way Edd brings to life the thoughts and feelings of his characters in this touching story of a military man who recieved no respect along with countless others, after coming home from his tour. The years doesn't diminish the pain that is buried in the deepest part of his character's heart. When faced with the decision to share that part of his life, he thought would be buried forever, he chooses to take the chance. Edd is a sensitive writer who writes from his heart. I can't help but respect and admire his talent.
Good Job!!!
Tory Lynn - 2006-10-17, 1 of 1 people found this review helpful, Rated:
