Where does a bullet go?  The flash of light, the explosion’s dull boom mixes with the sharp crack of the sound barrier, and a few cents worth of metal finds a new resting place.  Maybe it took a life, maybe it will poison one later with lead or depleted uranium, shattered families or PTSD.  However, the crescendo is but a brief moment in the long trajectory of a bullet, its arc affecting lives far from combat zones, its impact circulating, beginning long before and lingering long after that moment of violent destiny.  Before a soldier’s bullet can take a life, it must first feed another. 

Greg Roest