Veteran's Day

We can even appreciate that although their deaths were a great sacrifice, some of their lives (or the lives of their families & friends) were a great sacrifice with nightmares, PTSD, etc.

As a young teenager in the 1990's & the son of a Vietnam vet, I bought and read a bunch of autobiographies of Vietnam Vets' tours during the war (mostly some sort of Special Forces or Marines autobiographies).

Those Americans that wrote those stories filled my heart, but they also unveiled the dark side of that terrible burden.

Waking up to the reality that they were choking their wives, the mail man, anger issues, terrified that they would hurt their own children & cause the kid's fear of daddy, catching a practical joker in the neck with their bootstrap knife (LRRP point man)...I'll never forget the old photos of soldiers in shell shock delirium from WW1.

It's the readjustment & the sins that follow that the public is often oblivious to.

Vet's/cops/Fireman expose themselves to a horrific chaos that strips away your loving spirit and humanity-that is a risky sacrifice, gambling their very souls & the souls of those they love.