Live'n Life: Red White and Blue

I was watching a show on TV called "CMT's next Superstar." It's a show kind of like American Idol, except just for the genre of country music. It is amazing. These people are so talented and I can sing, but nothing compared to the talent shown on this program. But, anyways...on the episode from last week they went to an Air Force base and watched the troops come home to meet their families once again. They sang for the troops. These men and women had been deployed for 12 months. Some had children, wives, girlfriends, husbands...one even had a child who was 6months old...he didn't even get to be there for his daughter's birth. To give their lives for me and for you and for all that we have...to be so selfless as to give up their homes and families to make sure they're safe and to make sure we're safe...I mean wow. I am amazed.
My brother is in the Air Force and he's currently deployed for 7 months to Korea. Luckily he isn't in a war zone, but it doesn't make me miss him any less. It's sad to me that he probably doesn't realize how much I miss him and how much I appreciate him. I have friends who are also currently deployed in Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. I am so proud of them...I wish I was out there doing my part for our country. I only hope that I can make someone as proud of me as I am of all of them.
We forever owe so much to all of our military and their families for their bravery, courage, strength, but most of all for the selflessness that they show everyday. They fight for strangers...for some who don't even deserve to have the many things we as Americans have, but they still give their time, their care, their willingness, and sometimes their lives so that we have the opportunities that most dream of. I am forever in their debt. Thank you and God bless.

An army is a nation within a nation, it is one of the vices of courage.