It is our earth, not yours or mine or his. We are meant to live on it, helping each other, not destroying each other.
- J. Krishnamurti
I truly do not believe that most people in this world set out to hurt others.
So why do we do it?
They asked for volunteers, so I volunteered. I deployed and spent a year in the sandbox. I came home. The Army decided I was too broken to serve any longer and gave me temporary medical retirement. I'm a civilian again and married right back in. My husband is gearing to deploy. In the meantime, I have a strange love-hate relationship with the Army. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't.
There was a call for volunteers to deploy in Spring of 2006. I volunteered, was selected, passed the screening process, and was sent to reclassification training to go from being a bandsman to a human resource specialist. After graduation, I was home for roughly a month. I met the rest of my new unit right before we were sent to mobilization training. Once validated, we were sent overseas in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
I left university, quit my job, dumped my foreign boyfriend, and said a few very painful goodbyes. But I don't regret it one bit.
In early August, I was MEDEVAC'd out of the desert. My unit was just a few weeks away from going home. Now my only job is to get better. The irony is that they returned to their homes before I did.
1 comment:
greed...
greed for power,greed for oil,greed for money,greed for "national security",
greed for whatever one man does not own, but another does!
mankind has a nasty history of greed and a long blood trail of death in it's wake...
greed...
Regards~
Cold war vet
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