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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2014 10:12:04 GMT -5
Do you think she has done the right thing by keeping secrets about her and Jack's past? Are there certain things( Jack raping Kayla & his marriage to Eve) that she was justified in wanting to hide? Did Abigail and JJ ever deserve to know about this part of their parents' lives?
Obviously, Jennifer has been placed in a situation twice now where there was no other choice but to reveal things, but does anyone think that JJ's extreme reaction to being "lied to" was warranted? He is already confronting the possibility of being judged for his past behaviour and doesn't like it...so should he hold what his parents did long before he was born against them?
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Post by Kpatch on Jun 28, 2014 10:23:02 GMT -5
Great question @dukeblue!
I don't think children need to know every little detail about their parents' lives before they were a family. BUT! <--- Big But. Previous marriages are not a little detail, so yes, the children have a right to know. Other people were involved and these things are bound to come up since so many other people knew about it.
I don't think JJ needed to know about Jack raping Kayla. BUT! (Another big BUT) If Jack planned to include that detail in a book he wanted to publish, they should have told the children about it. I don't blame JJ for his reaction. It wasn't only the fact that it happened, but also that it was in a book that the world got to read, and JJ was the last to know, so to speak. He was blindsided by his father's sordid past. I know I'd be upset if I found a skeleton like that in my father's closet.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2014 11:40:22 GMT -5
Kpatch, was the rape actually included in the book? I always thought that JJ found out by accessing court documents? I thought he became suspicious about there being something terrible in Jack's past because of the way people reacted when he talked so proudly of his father? I was always under the assumption that Jack's book was about his time in Afghanistan but I could be wrong. I am surprised that Paige hasn't brought up the rape, seeing as how she has read the book.
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Post by Kpatch on Jun 28, 2014 11:49:49 GMT -5
No @dukeblue, you're absolutely right that the book was about his prisoner of war experience, but I thought he included some personal details in the book. You have a better memory than I do, so I am probably mistaken.
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