My grandfather was Marine. He served as a chief warrant officer in the Pacific theater. His wife, my grandmother, was a nurse for a retired admiral in San Diego while my grandfather was in the Pacific. He enlisted with all of his cousins. My other grandfather was an Army rifleman in the Aleutians one island away from where some of the firecest fighting in the Pacific theater took place. His brother enlisted with him.
They were citizen soldiers. Men who heard the call of God and country, and one can argue the world, to serve the better good. They would have given their lives if it was asked, and my one grandfather very nearly did when the plane he was on was shot down and ditched in the ocean while my grandfather had a very heavy metal briefcase full of payroll handcuffed to his wrist.
Soldiers now-a-days have more against them then ever. They are asked to fight for and defend a country that has forgotten how precious freedom and liberty is. And when they fall in defense of their country, there are those that would stand outside of their funerals and yell horrible things at their greaving families and hold signs up stating they got what they deserve. It is wrong for us to condemn them because of the decisions the politicians WE vote into office make.
I am not a warmonger. I would love to see the day where war is replaced with peaceful words and tolerance of others. But unfortunately there are those in this world that would have their way through violence, oppression and death. That is why we need these men and women who unselfishly give their lives to defend those that can not.
So remember the men and women that have served and continue to serve, not just on this day, but everyday. Freedom isn't free...
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