A salute
To those in the armed forces, I salute you. Not just on days the government so says, but everyday! You work and live a day to day life which a civilian can never understand, for pay which is not equal to the dangers and hardships you endure.
The news media tells tales of the bad done to civilians in conflict, but only tally your dead. Sometimes the media will show a sweet homecoming, but not the heartbreak family separation has created.
You stand tall and salute the flag, honor the country and its people when protesters spit obscenities at you. You work at a job daily with precision, no matter the location. You came from all walks of live to become one in a community of the military.
The military is not the calling for everyone, only the brave and stout hearted. You live a life filled with the mundane at locations few wish to see. You strive to prefect your job performance, lives are saved that way.
They say “Hell is for Heroes”, but you live with the prospect each day. When you leave the safely of home to work in lands filled with danger, your family is with you, though mostly only in your mind. From a barren hilltop of rock or a desert filled with sand or snow, to an ocean of unseen hazards, you go with head held high.
Yes, I salute all the members of our armed forces, for you keep this nation safe! Your life is filled with an honor no civilian can ever attain. You give so much more than anyone knows, to keep our freedoms free. You pay the price for those freedoms and a high price it is indeed!
One of the reasons I pen these words today, I have a loved one who is going back in the face of danger once more. To help free a people far from our home, he will do a job for which no songs will be sung. But a hero he is!
Take care and know we love you Rich! My thoughts will be with you, always. I wish only, I could go in your stead. And for you I have to say: “GO BEARS”.
Ed Williams
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The news media tells tales of the bad done to civilians in conflict, but only tally your dead. Sometimes the media will show a sweet homecoming, but not the heartbreak family separation has created.
You stand tall and salute the flag, honor the country and its people when protesters spit obscenities at you. You work at a job daily with precision, no matter the location. You came from all walks of live to become one in a community of the military.
The military is not the calling for everyone, only the brave and stout hearted. You live a life filled with the mundane at locations few wish to see. You strive to prefect your job performance, lives are saved that way.
They say “Hell is for Heroes”, but you live with the prospect each day. When you leave the safely of home to work in lands filled with danger, your family is with you, though mostly only in your mind. From a barren hilltop of rock or a desert filled with sand or snow, to an ocean of unseen hazards, you go with head held high.
Yes, I salute all the members of our armed forces, for you keep this nation safe! Your life is filled with an honor no civilian can ever attain. You give so much more than anyone knows, to keep our freedoms free. You pay the price for those freedoms and a high price it is indeed!
One of the reasons I pen these words today, I have a loved one who is going back in the face of danger once more. To help free a people far from our home, he will do a job for which no songs will be sung. But a hero he is!
Take care and know we love you Rich! My thoughts will be with you, always. I wish only, I could go in your stead. And for you I have to say: “GO BEARS”.
Ed Williams
©
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