Sunday Firesides: Your Routine Needs Rites of Passage

During WWII, it could take a soldier two weeks to get home, with days spent slowly traveling by ship across the Atlantic and by train through the States. Along the way he got a chance to unwind, decompress, and shift his mindset from warrior to civilian.

A soldier coming home from Afghanistan could be on the frontlines one day, and back with his family 4…