Blood, Sweat and tears.

Posted on 26 Oct 2013 @ 12:35pm by Commander Luke Wyatt
Edited on 26 Oct 2013 @ 12:37pm

490 words; about a 2 minute read

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I dont know what to say really... People that don't know me ask me if I enjoy war and why I do it. I don't like answer it, why? They don't understand. Its not a matter of killing and shooting but about the people next to ya and that's all there is. I look around and see all these young faces and I think we're in hell right now. I wont say I like war and I crave it but I do it so someone else doesn't have to, so that another Mum doesn't loose a Son, a daughter doesn't loose a brother and a wife doesn't losses a husband. I do it because someone has to, even if it means paying the ultimate sacrifice, and I know about sacrifices.

I have paid many, perhaps to many. I have been absent remorse for so long that I have almost forgotten what it feels like. I have seen green fields turned red, young boys smoked by hot lead and beams of light taken to soon out of this world. If you listen you can take a lesson from the dead, if we don't do things right and do it together we will be overwhelmed and destroyed. We have to keep going on with the struggles of life and all that it throws at us because as soon as we stop fighting, as soon as we give up hope, all is lost. And then we are no better than the dead themselves.

Hope... Now that's something worth fighting for huh? The hope to see loved ones again, the hope to see the next day and the day after that and the day after that day and so on until the day you are old looking back at the choices you made in the here and now, in the depths of hell. Fighting not just for yourself but for the people around you, the people who are counting on you to be the driving force between right and wrong, good and bad. The one to take the first step onto the battlefield and the last to take a step off, thats what makes the difference, that's what I fight for.

But they will still never understand so I smile and nod, move on to the next person and continue the process till the end of time. Every person on this ship, on this hallowed ground knows the price of war now whether they think it or not. They have all lost much and gained little so I will give them much I will give them my all, I will fight alongside them, I will pick them up and carry them as far as they need to see the day done. These are my brothers and sisters now and it doesn't even matter that they wear Gold, Blue, Green or red because we have all shared blood, sweat and tears.

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