The Cold Water Plunge of Repatriation

Returning home is the ultimate challenge

I did not fight in the Trojan War before my return to America in 1999; that’s true.

I did not return from abroad to reclaim my beautiful wife, Penelope, constantly besieged by aggressive suitors after my twenty-year absence.

I also did not return in disguise to establish the loyalty of my wife and son. What?!

Odysseus was from an honor-based warrior socie…