Please forgive me if this is out of line or in the wrong place. I have a wife that followed me around and supported me through 7 combat tours, over 6 full years of combat. I don't know how she sat home and just wondered day do day if we were gonna live to come home. The pain from those tours is just starting to take hold about a year after retirement. Time to reflect and look at my daughter, my mind scrambling for thought while I watch her play. She's only 6 years old but somehow remembers me coming home, she lived through 2 combat tours herself. She asks if my Marines are ok as in present tense with that innocent voice and ice blue ice with true genuine concern almost as if she's reading my mind. My wife.....my wife is hard as nails, she has endured pain I cannot fathom. She was the one back home with the young wives doing her best to put on the happy face and tell the most heart felt lie she could muster to keep her from breaking completely down. Any Veteran that served understands this. I lie awake at night asking myself this question. Was it all worth it. Look at where the country is headed. All the lazy no good worthless Americans on welfare taking advantage of the system. A Government that cant make a decision about War or even get a plan together due to our Nations Greatest War Generals ideas being put on the back burner while the president does things his own way. Mediocracy is accepted and celebrated. Maybe I have a stick up my butt and am just venting.
But lately I do look around and the way things are going and think to myself....this is what I fought for. The honor and pride of fighting for my country and doing my part to come home wounded to a VA Hospital that treats you like your intruding on T TIME at the links later. This isn't a constant battle just sometimes I see things that set me off and make me ask myself what the hell was it all for. I apologize if I've overstepped my bounds I just thought maybe brother on here had a more eloquent way of putting things into words.
Very Respectfully
But lately I do look around and the way things are going and think to myself....this is what I fought for. The honor and pride of fighting for my country and doing my part to come home wounded to a VA Hospital that treats you like your intruding on T TIME at the links later. This isn't a constant battle just sometimes I see things that set me off and make me ask myself what the hell was it all for. I apologize if I've overstepped my bounds I just thought maybe brother on here had a more eloquent way of putting things into words.
Very Respectfully
