I will admit this is a great story, and fun.
It was a nice reunion. Very touching, and mostly tragic.
And stories like this are published to help us forget her kid shouldn't have been over there in the first place, he shouldn't have been wounded and had to recover, and with a back injury will undoubtedly have the rest of his life to suffer.
It's like medals and parades. Sops to the suckers to make them feel noble, generous, and patriotic for having funded wars like Vietnam and Iraq.
One mustn't look past the flower into the manure it took to grow it or their attitude sours.
Arf