This goes for the same for the professional athletes. Some of them cry about not getting pay enough (over $500,000 minimal) just the catch a ball or hit a ball or throw a ball through a hoop. Some may get a $1 million dollar bounce for making the winning touchdown or win the championship game.
Meanwhile, a solder is deployed for months, across sea, away from their family. He/she has to sleep on the ground (wet or dry, cold or warm), eat the bare minimum decent food, never have a vacation while on their tour, cannot enjoy simple everyday life while on tour and is consistently being shot at, RPG attacks, IED attacks, see your buddies get killed and face to take somebodies life away. When your deployment is over, it can range from walking off the AC to never make it home at all (MIA). Oh, and the average pay for the grunt solder that has to do all these things, $19-$30.
So who is the hero?
When I entered service, I remember my pay being around 1500 a month (E3).. before taxes (Military is paid from taxes, yet they take taxes back out.. love that govt
). If you figure it out, that was about $2.05/hr. Think about that.. $2.05 an hour.. That is truly pathetic. Waitresses earn more without tips, minimum wage has always been higher as far back as I can recall and now, on-top of all these perks to the jobs, they also have the right to have a church or protest invade their funeral because it's a First Amendment right...
to the Soldiers, teachers and all those who are the true foundation of this great nation, because without you, we wouldn't have the ability to read the headlines about a sports star, or walk down our streets in peace. We wouldn't have a Constitution with which many hide behind while they denounce the very thing keeping their rights alive. Nor would we, or possibly much of the world, be relatively free to choose their own destiny...
$2.05 an hour.. the cost of a life and freedom is less than 2.05 an hour. Hero's indeed.
