American Sniper - Boekje Pienter

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Those are the ones you talk about. Those are the faces and situations
that stay with you forever.
IN OR OUT
My enlistment was coming to an end. The Navy kept trying to entice
me to stay, making different offers: handle training, work in England,
anything I wanted just so I would stay in the Navy.
Even though I had told Taya I wouldn’t reenlist, I wasn’t ready to
quit.
I wanted to go back to the war. I felt I’d been cheated on my last
deployment. I struggled, trying to decide what to do. Some days, I was
through with the Navy; other days, I was ready to tell my wife the hell
with it, and reenlist.
We talked about it a lot.
Taya:
I told Chris that both our kids needed him, especially, at
that particular time, our son. If he wasn’t going to be there,
then I would move closer to my father so that at least he would
grow up with a strong grandfather very close to him.
I didn’t want to do that at all.
And Chris really loved us all. He really wanted to have and
nurture a strong family.
Part of it came down to the conflict we’d always
had—where were our priorities: God, family, country (my version),
or God, country, family (Chris’s)