You are welcome. As a veteran, let me tell you that today isn’t the easiest day of the year for those of us who have been to war. We may have left the war, but in some ways it will never leave us. Don’t forget that when you meet a vet.
Don’t get me wrong, we aren’t looking for sympathy. We aren’t interested in hand wringing and second guessing about having been sent into harms way.
We didn’t join the military and face the bitter reality of war to be molly coddled. We didn’t join so we could be “heroes”.
We joined because we love this country. We joined because we believe in the principles of freedom and justice this country was founded on. We serve because someone must and we aren’t the kind to sit back and let someone else stand in the gap for us. However, we also aren’t the kind to resent that we are standing in that gap for others. We love Americans and we know that by our service others won’t have to serve and we are glad for it.
Someone somewhere first said that war is hell. There is truth in that. But we know that too often a greater hell exists where men and women refuse to stand up and fight tyranny. So we serve. Some of us find ourselves in war. Some of us never return from the war. For the rest, the war never leaves us.
We are happy to have done our part so that every American can live in freedom. All we ask is that you cherish the freedom that we purchased with blood and tears. That you understand that Freedom, real Freedom is the most costly thing there is on this planet.
Please remember that what ever your political persuasion, what ever you stand in defense of or what ever you stand in protest against, you have the right to do so because of some man or woman in the uniform of the United States of America.
You are welcome.
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A friend on FB wrote this:
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America' for an amount of 'up to an including my life.'
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If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
2 Chronicles 7:14 KJV
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? Micah 6:8 KJV
Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. 1 John 3:2 KJV
Re: From a Veteran on Veteran’s day, You are welco
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Originally Posted by John Atkinson
Yup, as a veteran I agree with all that.
As a veteran at work today I am thinking a paid day off would have been a nice gesture....
ANyhow thanks vets and your welcome....
My husband is a Viet Nam Vet (and off today - schoolteacher). I never pass up the chance to say thank you to all who have served or serving now. It was and is a sacrifice that we need to show appreciation for. THANK YOU!
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