I pulled this from a FaceBook post I came across from 22 Until Done.
It is the confession of many of us that have served our country. I experience this all the time as do so many others.
Is there truly a solution besides eternal sleep? And really are we guaranteed that it will end there or will it be a constant repeat of those horrible things we did or experienced?
Why do we kill one another? Taught that a simple squeeze of a trigger or push of a button is all we need to do. Not understanding the repercussions of that action until after the fact.
We have done all we can to divorce the actions with bullets, missiles, and the like. Thinking that if the soldier doesn't see the hit it that it would easier to disassociate the action and not be personally responsible.
It only takes looking down through the scope once, visiting that battlefield, or taking part of that after-action report to understand that you and your buddies ended another person and separated them from their family.
For me, my family was the simple thing I dreamed of returning to, it really was that simple.
Our military has been engaged in one conflict or another since 1989, since Nicaragua, then to Saudi and Kawaut, and has snowballed since. Our "awesome" withdrawal from Afghanistan left billions in working equipment and threw out the meanings of so many dead and wounded not to forget about all those we promised to help. For what? Has there truly been any overall good that the soldiers have bled and died for? The things that I and others are forced to revile every day? What makes it even worse is that even while in a combat zone we were told what we could and could not do. No ammo on this run, take this candy and give it out to all the kids you see.
We, the fighting men and women, are seen only as pawns within a political game for those that have truly no skin in the game.
It is the confession of many of us that have served our country. I experience this all the time as do so many others.
Is there truly a solution besides eternal sleep? And really are we guaranteed that it will end there or will it be a constant repeat of those horrible things we did or experienced?
Why do we kill one another? Taught that a simple squeeze of a trigger or push of a button is all we need to do. Not understanding the repercussions of that action until after the fact.
We have done all we can to divorce the actions with bullets, missiles, and the like. Thinking that if the soldier doesn't see the hit it that it would easier to disassociate the action and not be personally responsible.
It only takes looking down through the scope once, visiting that battlefield, or taking part of that after-action report to understand that you and your buddies ended another person and separated them from their family.
For me, my family was the simple thing I dreamed of returning to, it really was that simple.
Our military has been engaged in one conflict or another since 1989, since Nicaragua, then to Saudi and Kawaut, and has snowballed since. Our "awesome" withdrawal from Afghanistan left billions in working equipment and threw out the meanings of so many dead and wounded not to forget about all those we promised to help. For what? Has there truly been any overall good that the soldiers have bled and died for? The things that I and others are forced to revile every day? What makes it even worse is that even while in a combat zone we were told what we could and could not do. No ammo on this run, take this candy and give it out to all the kids you see.
We, the fighting men and women, are seen only as pawns within a political game for those that have truly no skin in the game.
