The wars in the Middle East have touched us all.
However my thoughts and prayers go out to those of you who have loved ones involved on a daily basis...
You march with them literally 'in their boots' via an emotional, spiritual, protective bubble of loving concern. Minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day...
Military service, especially in the gravest conditions as our brave hero's face today, is a selfless act each soul makes in the decision to participate, giving at the very minimum, a portion of their young lives too...
The personal commitment these men and women make is one of tangible love.
Not only their immediate loved ones, but like a stone dropped in water, a rippling sacrifice spreading across the entire United States, and the world for that matter, in perfect, unending, protective resolve....
...Ones political, social, personal 'view' of the state of the world today is irrelevant in regard to this....
Political Science and the battle to control the pendulum of the popular conscience consent of the American people is always subject to change, and amounts to dust in the wind when compared to the sacrifice of the individual...
Centuries fall by the waste side, empires rise and fall, social values come and go, but the short condensed microcosm of a human life time...
The commitments, choices, values, one individual makes....
That,... is what gives meaning to the concept of humanitarianism....
The final totality of the human race, will never be accurately weighted by any simple means of 'mass conscience'...
It is the individual that makes us unique...It is the individual that makes us valuable...
...And so, it is to the individual's in our armed forces I wish to salute....
To their choice...To their commitment,...to their sacrifice of love.
