WORLD WAR ME RECORDSThe long way home,
in ten chapters.
The story behind The Long Way Home, told in movements. Each one moves the story from war toward peace.
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01
Before He Knew the Story
Youth, the stage, first love, and the city that shaped him.
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02
The Uniform
Service far from home. Letters that meant everything. The brotherhood that carried people through, and the long road back to a life that had changed.
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03
Searching
Restlessness, new places, and the search for purpose. You can leave a place without leaving what happened there.
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04
Building
Marriage, the road, the work of making a home, and the arrival of a family.
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05
Collapse
The chapter that changed everything. Told with care, without spectacle.
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06
Existence Before Meaning
Survival comes first. Meaning comes later, one day at a time.
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07
The Old Songs
The catalog returns, and it lands differently than it did when it was written.
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08
The Box
Can you meet who you were without needing to become that person again? An archive of words, and an archive of feeling.
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09
The Survivor Writes
Songs from the far side of the line. The writer knows he made it home, and says so.
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10
Musical Soldier Becomes a Mantle
The name stops belonging to one man and starts belonging to everyone who has worn the uniform and found the road home.