with all that has happened lately, it is hard for me to express how i really feel. not because i can bring myself to share such feelings, but because i am still not sure how i feel.
there are a few things i do know though.
when the United states and Nato say "we are at war," do many of us really know what this means?
has it been too long since a global conflict has occured?
has it been too long since the lives of people have been turned upside down?
has it been to long since sons, fathers, daughters and mothers, left home to fight but to never return?
has it been too long that we can go to bed every night knowing our families are safe; too long since we took for granted a loved one's face smiling and saying "good morning"
has it been so long that the stories we read and our elders tell us about their experiences of war are just that: stories so obscure and far removed from everyday life that we dont understand the human emotions felt so long ago.
has it been so long that war is only a flashing picture on a screen, not a flesh and blood human being lying in some foreign field...dying.
it is never too long.. never too much time between the senseless sacrifice of human lives.
my friends, i am young. standing here in all my innocence at age 22. i have a beautiful girl and want to start a beautiful life. i want to have beautiful children and grow old slowly and gracefully.
i only hope and pray that i will have a chance to do this.
but as i am finally able to express my feelings to a community which i have an unimaginable bond to, i realize one thing.
my education, my soon to be wife, my forecoming children.. and all my future endevours mean nothing:
they mean nothing without freedom, security, and the sanctity of our current way of life.
and i like our for fathers and mothers am willing to sacrific my happiness, my life to ensure the future... of those to come
