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Carolyn Hileman | December 12, 2009
Someone to protect you.
Carolyn Hileman
The blood on the ground, the flag covered coffin, the grieving family it is all done for you, it does not matter the color of your skin, what church, synagogue or mosque you attend. It does not matter if you make two dollars an hour or two hundred; it is still done for you. It does not matter the color of skin when the color of the blood is the same, it does not matter which armed services they belong to they belong to you. They do not do it for the money, a lot of them live on food stamps, they don’t do it for the glory, and most of them will tell you really fast they are not heroes. It is not some death wish, or suicide by war, no it is something more, something that makes them different, it is something that sets them apart. It is an undying love for their country and their countrymen, a need to protect the innocent and the weak, a need to know that they are making a difference.
You can insult them, you can say that they do not know what they are doing, you can dismiss them, treat them with disdain and tomorrow morning they will get up and do the exact same thing. These are men and women who have given up any semblance of real life, they will not be sleeping in a nice comfy bed, won’t eat at a restaurant or talk to their families for weeks at a time. They will wear the soles of their boots so thin from marching they can feel the sand between their toes, they will carry hundreds of pounds on their backs up a hill and stay for days until they reach their objective, because that is who they are and that is just what they do. They will cry when one of their own is blown to pieces in front of them, then they will carry them back to safety, pick up their gun and keep going, because someone has to keep going and they figure it is them.
When they come home, most of them will not want to talk about it, you see they were not trained to be braggarts and most of them see no glory what so ever in taking another human life. They will go back to their jobs, teaching, nursing, policing and working, they will sit and talk to the children as if they were their own, they will answer most questions and will treat you with the respect they have yet to get. They will salute the flag and they will reverence the flag as it was one of the few things they saw while at war that reminded them of home. They will pick up their lives where they left off, they will carry their children on their backs and swing them in the air, they will kiss their wives or husbands and hang out with their friends and they will ready themselves for the next time you need someone to protect you.
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