Oh, nice! Could have been anything and nothing. Family can burrow into places they have no business being and things can blow up to the point where words are said and feelings felt that though they're seemingly over the top they're no less real.
Let's see... Sid's are all good. Maybe Jack was off on a mission when his mother took ill and wasn't there when she died. Dad took it out on him and Jack took it out on him and it escalated from there.
Dad was anti-military. Do the math.
Dad remarried within a year of Mom's death (*VERY* common, but no less unsettling, at times). Words were said. Understanding lost.
Maybe there was an accident. Maybe Dad was driving and mom died in the accident. Maybe Dad claims to have been sober, but his history argued against it. Maybe Jack's going to go to Chicago and learn that Dad *did* clean up his act, but Jack never believed him until now, and now is too late.
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Let's see... Sid's are all good. Maybe Jack was off on a mission when his mother took ill and wasn't there when she died. Dad took it out on him and Jack took it out on him and it escalated from there.
Dad was anti-military. Do the math.
Dad remarried within a year of Mom's death (*VERY* common, but no less unsettling, at times). Words were said. Understanding lost.
Maybe there was an accident. Maybe Dad was driving and mom died in the accident. Maybe Dad claims to have been sober, but his history argued against it. Maybe Jack's going to go to Chicago and learn that Dad *did* clean up his act, but Jack never believed him until now, and now is too late.