A soldier lives in fear for their life, day after day, in a combat zone - how can they really describe to someone what that feels like? It is hard to capture in a narrative. Through the medium of poetry, Eddie Morales intuitively expresses the essence of those battles, both in combat, and the secondary battle once the veteran returns home. Reflections of War, Part 1, is a series of compassionate poems that express the feelings and sensations of the combat veteran. This book is a powerful journey into a battlefield of the heart and soul, as the poetry lives out the searing pain and hardship of the soldier in war. Then - the soldier comes home from war, and the pain and strife should be over. But the war lives on in their mind, evocatively expressed in poetry by the author. After returning home, there is a second battle to fight - the scars on the psyche that must be dealt with - or they can have dangerous consequences. Eddie Morales is not a combat veteran. He has had numerous interviews with veterans, during which he has listened with intent, to hear the world of the warrior. He put that on paper so forcefully that combat veterans nod and say, "he gets it." The author is a martial arts instructor and former law enforcement officer and has honed his skills of expression carefully, to share the stories in his poems.