Days like this are hard.
Today is about remembering those who fought the fight, made the sacrifice, and those who still continue to do so.
While today, the country may appreciate us for what we have given up and faced so they didn’t have to, tomorrow they’ll forget and we still have to deal with it.
Please take today to remember that serving in the military, regardless if a service member has ever been to combat, is a sacrifice. You lose friends, you miss out on watching your family grow and change, you can’t be there to give or get support. While your friends can build lasting friendships and relationships, servicemembers pack up their lives and move every 6 months or so.
Then they get to war. We grow up trying to be good people, then we are constantly faced with the cognitive dissonance of having to do things that “good people” don’t do. We see things that cannot be unseen, hear things that cannot be unheard.
If America is serious about honoring our nation’s vets, please let today be the day that we all take a vow to be supportive and understanding of the struggles our vets are going through because of what they have done to preserve our freedom. This freedom which is once again being threatened in a very real and present way, on our own soil, by extremists and brainwashed masses.
Don’t ostracize us because we are different.
Our experiences mold who we are and we have done and seen things that we are fighting like hell so you never have to deal with here in the US. We are helping you preserve your way of life, help us reintegrate into normalcy once we are no longer able to serve.
Some gave all, and the ones that are left only ask for patience and understanding.
Happy veteran’s day.
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