End of the Innocent

The music on the radio suddenly stopped. The announcer came on, "We are bringing you breaking news. Large space ships have come from behind the moon, out of sky and are dislodging black clad warriors who are attacking..." The invasion had begun. A backward society found itself at war against an advanced, space traveling race. The fighting would envelop the whole planet, tearing nations and families apart. Pethran and his two sons struggle with a new reality, not of their making. One son fights the aliens, the other is captured and forced into the galactic navy.The father struggles to carry on life without them.