Thank you for posting this article.
Merry Christmas to you, friends, and family!!!
OUR SOLDIERS ARE THROWING AWAY THEIR LIVES. (hold on the flames for a sec...)
Yes. They are.
They threw away their adolescence.
They threw away fun with the opposite sex in the back seats of cars.
They threw away Christmas, Thanksgiving, Birthdays with family.
Some threw away being at the birth of their own child.
Some will throw away a little blood. Some will throw away the ability to walk the rest of their life.
Some will throw away their life.
So that you, and I, could have our adolescence, our romps in the back seat.
So that we could have Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving.
So that we could be with family to celebrate birthdays, and see our children being born.
So that we could walk upright, healthy, and earn a good living.
So that we could go to a Mormon, Jewish, Catholic, Methodist, even an Islamic church service, without fear.
We want FREEDOM. But someone must pay for it. Someone must be willing to ‘give something up’ to keep that freedom. Someone must be willing to ‘throw away’ all the normalcy of the Average American’s life to protect us.
Our soldiers have done this. PAID for our FREEDOM, and they have done so, IN ADVANCE.
Even though many of them will never get the chance to see if their ‘efforts’ PAID OFF.
We OWE them a debt that can never be repaid, and even if we somehow could, they would assure you they didn’t deserve, because they were just “DOING THEIR DUTY”.
I'll vouch for that...to this day, that's my attitude. Mine was the Cold War, and reasonably safe, but I honored that blank check I wrote every day for 20 years.