U.S.SFC_RET
Member
What I posted to another board.
Memorial Day
May we never forget those who perished. Those heroes that never came back. May we never forget those who sacrificed their lives for this great country.
I hope that it stays in the foremost of our minds that servicemen and women carry a burden in many forms.
Leaving home they assimilate into a new world and their blood is green.
They are subjected to many environments that are much, much different. Military life is very stressful, Subjected to it 24 hours 7 days a week.
There is nothing like knowing that you are expendable. Knowing the fact that virtually overnight you went from a human being and transformed into a number. You became usable combat power.
There are servicemen I knew who bore rashes, some who died of cancer. Some who bore children with serious birth defects.
I know more than a few servicemen who returned from Iraq changed and shaken to the core. The fear and uncertainty worked into them. They know and live with the ever imposing hammer of uncertainty that will hit them with the order to redeploy.
Some get out of the service only to have trouble adjusting to civilian life. It is estimated that 1/3 of homeless are veterans. The suicide rate for the returning veteran is higher than the civilian population.
Remember the dead and remember the living.
Memorial Day
May we never forget those who perished. Those heroes that never came back. May we never forget those who sacrificed their lives for this great country.
I hope that it stays in the foremost of our minds that servicemen and women carry a burden in many forms.
Leaving home they assimilate into a new world and their blood is green.
They are subjected to many environments that are much, much different. Military life is very stressful, Subjected to it 24 hours 7 days a week.
There is nothing like knowing that you are expendable. Knowing the fact that virtually overnight you went from a human being and transformed into a number. You became usable combat power.
There are servicemen I knew who bore rashes, some who died of cancer. Some who bore children with serious birth defects.
I know more than a few servicemen who returned from Iraq changed and shaken to the core. The fear and uncertainty worked into them. They know and live with the ever imposing hammer of uncertainty that will hit them with the order to redeploy.
Some get out of the service only to have trouble adjusting to civilian life. It is estimated that 1/3 of homeless are veterans. The suicide rate for the returning veteran is higher than the civilian population.
Remember the dead and remember the living.