Thank you Veterans
Hero,
sacrifice, brave, are just some of the words that we use to describe our men
and women in the armed forces. Sometimes I feel ashamed to use these words
because they do not even come close to
properly describing, who these amazing people are, what they have given up on a
daily basis and what they have to push past physically, mentally, and
emotionally every day to protect this nation.
A special
thank you to each and every one of those who have fallen asleep back to back
with another soldier to only be startled awake by gunfire, to those who came
face to face with a 10 year old strapped with explosives, to those who have
literally taken bullets for this country, to those who have lost limbs, to
those who have come home mentally unstable, to those who lost a friends in the line
of duty, to those who have come face to face
with death with no time to mourn but to keep fighting, to those who cannot
celebrate the 4th of July because of flashbacks, to those who walked
into the recruiting office, to those who were recycled and didn't give up. I
thank you.
I thank the person who keeps the house
together while our soldiers are gone, to those men and women who become mommy
AND daddy for the 1 month to the many years that the other is away, to the ones
who have received the dreadful phone call, to the ones who received the news
that your soldiers tour has been extended. To the wives that are always rooting
for their husbands, to the husbands that are always rooting for their wives,
not just on Veterans Day but every day they are gone. I say thank you to the
spouses who stayed faithful for the many years your significant other was away.
We do not
deserve your sacrifice; we do not appreciate what you do for us; because we
take it for granted. We do not help the handicapped vet, we look away when a
vet has a mental breakdown. While you’re getting shot at over there we are here
complaining about how our cell phones do not work. While your dragging your
wounded soldier friend to safety, we are on our gaming systems shooting at
others for entertainment, While your over there finding out that your wife has
left you, we are over hear sleeping with her. While you fight to help us keep
our freedoms, we are over here destroying them. I apologize for my part in this.
I thank each
and every one of you.
Marc
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