Aspire To Be…

Today on this day my thoughts and prayers go out to the soldiers and there loved ones. Me as an individual have never taken a side on much of anything. I’m always as the neutral, never the forward. Growing up I’ve only had one person close to me that has been in the military and been in an actual war. My grandfather served in the Korean War.

Never has it been spoken of, I have no stories to tell. Its like “fight club”, first rule of fight club “don’t talk about fight club.” If he has had post-traumatic stress disorder, I am unaware. Since, those years in the military and ever year after he dawns his uniform proudly for the country he served and for the people he swore to protect. He has become a prominent fixture in our society. As a loving husband and father, a deacon at his church, he has surpassed many in life and lives on as a reminder to all of what he fought for us to keep. I’m honored and humbled by his choice, wishing that I could be as brave as he. It’s a different time a different war now, but the reasons are the same. Freedom is a choice that we have and our hope is that it is one that we can keep.