There is a reason why Alcoholics Anonymous meetings always end with American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr’s world-renowned devotion, The Serenity Prayer. The shortened version of the prayer goes as follows: “God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference”. Whether a person is religious or not, this orison rings true with a yearning to find tranquility that everyone can relate to, particularly soldiers. In life, if we do not learn to let go of haunting actions and experiences bygone, or at least accept them and learn from them, we generate a world of anger and misery to dwell in. In Ron Kovic’s autobiography “Born on the Fourth of July”, the readers bear witness
