A discussion of usless info I find laying around.

I was watching a show about the battle for Iwo Jima this evening. I sat and watched thinking about the sacrifice of others. Tens of thousands of young Marines half my age at that time and now twice my age suffered through hell on earth. The battle of Iwo Jima is well known, as it should be and points out how brutal war can be. My thoughts then went to all those other soldiers who must have thought the same thing about the spot on earth they were fighting on. The list is endless in the fight for freedom. There are the well known battles Iwo jima, Market Garden, Bastogne, D-Day, Pusan, Inchon, Chosin, Tet, Khe Sanh, Desert Storm and Fallujah. But between these battles we know the names of there have been thousands of other battles that have been fought by American soldiers that we don’t know the names of. The soldiers that fought them do, all these battles have meant the same thing to those that fought in them in my opinion. Each battle weather named or not has the same consequence to those who fight it, Life and Death. The soldier that is killed feels the pain of the moment in battle, but there is always a family left on earth who feel that loss for a lifetime.

On this Memorial day I will mourn those that have died for my freedom to watch shows about their heroism in my comfy spot in America. I will also say a prayer for those wounded and still out there doing what needs to be done to protect my freedoms.