Wow.
1) This guy is completely awesome.
2) REMEMBER THESE PEOPLE.
Remember what has happened to them, and what continues to happen. This story is inspiring and awesome, but there's so much more than just seeing someone who's coping well smile.
I never expected to care so much about these people. I'm not from any military family. I don't like war. I don't like the idea that killing secures freedom, though I'm not Gandhi, lay-down-before-the-Nazis pacifistic either.
It's easy to make them the scapegoats, especially if you hate The War Machine (tm) and see them as cogs in it.
They're kids. Kids who see, experience, even commit horror for us, and blaming them for our mistakes is horrible.
I don't celebrate military anything, but I do remember these people. So should you.
2) REMEMBER THESE PEOPLE.
Remember what has happened to them, and what continues to happen. This story is inspiring and awesome, but there's so much more than just seeing someone who's coping well smile.
I never expected to care so much about these people. I'm not from any military family. I don't like war. I don't like the idea that killing secures freedom, though I'm not Gandhi, lay-down-before-the-Nazis pacifistic either.
It's easy to make them the scapegoats, especially if you hate The War Machine (tm) and see them as cogs in it.
They're kids. Kids who see, experience, even commit horror for us, and blaming them for our mistakes is horrible.
I don't celebrate military anything, but I do remember these people. So should you.