The Battle of Hopper's Yard

He'd been gone for years, kept behind the walls of a VA Medical Center, unpredictable and dangerous when his demons came out. Carl hadn't seen his uncle Joe in years, not since that last "incident." But there he was, standing in the family living room, the same Jar-Head he'd always been. And that meant trouble.

Joe showed up five days after escaping from a hospital a thousand miles away. He wouldn't give up easy. But Mack Hopper, Carl's dad, had called the VA and expected them in a few hours. What to do till then?

"OK, dad," Carl ask, "what are we going to do with him?"

"Maybe nothing, or, maybe we just go to war."