Summary Of The Long Shadow Of War By Terrance Hayes

In “The Long Shadow of War” Terrance Hayes considers what makes someone family while discussing the time he not only found out his ‘father’ was not his blood, but also when he first met his birth father. He makes the claim that “the word father had nothing to do with blood.” Later he writes “I wondered how much of who my brother was had to do with blood.” In both of these instances he questions whether or not blood is what makes someone family, while also discussing how both of his fathers had served in the military. The suggestion of blood not determining who one’s family is draws an interesting parallel to our first class session, nobody in class said that they believed family had to do with blood. I also found the “’The military is no