You know certain things dont hit home until their banged in your head like trillion times. Things, they dont move you when they dont pertain to you or fit your lifestyle interest. We forget alot that things that mean nothing to us, in most cases, tie back in to us at some point or joint in our lives.
Me, I am a ungrateful American citizen to the eyes of some. I go about my life with prime interest of my family friends and I. This is the case for most of us. We whine and complain through our nine to five that provides us with (in many cases) nice to sufficient abodes, running water- fresh running water, electricity where the world to us through technology is now starting to become endless, and overall safe, while in the that residence. We spend countless dollars, (the poor surprisingly spends more of what they dont have than the rich- just a note) on wants, not necessities. We come out of a culture crafted to where we dont eat beans on rice alone.. I, personally bask in the simple luxuries that we have day to day, which to some foreigners are envious even to the meek of our riches.
These simple to extravagant means, the Xbox360's and iPhones to laptops in so many homes to the 5, 10, 50 million dollar homes and estates that people reside on... They have a price. The fact that when we look up in the sky 99.8 percent of the time, we dont have to worry about terror reigning down on us.. This has a price. For some this is an everyday dilemma. I can sadly say, the avid traveler I am, that I am reluctant to travel to many places out side my country..Simply because I just dont know, and it doesn't feel comfortable. There is a price paid for my comfortability where I stand writing this very piece.
There are people who volunteer to protect us. Yes they get paid. But they step up to serve our country. To uphold our status and honor( being real- keeping our status, and making sure the other guy is scared to fuck with us). They battle and take banana size bullet in their asses for us not no wanna be gangsta, bought a 45 and dont know how to shoot shit. Bombs, missiles, gasses alike in worlds of terror- not terrorist but in battle, War. That is terror, war. They come back changed, mentally, physically. Parts missing off thier bodies, some from their minds.. ALL TO SACRIFICE FOR US. Like I said there is a price.
I am not worthy of there efforts. Only in dire need do I think I will offer up my service. Not cuzz of the man, not cuzz this is so-and-so's country, not cuzz this is their war or that one's war, that is not ours.. More likely from my own cowardice or the feeling that I have something better to do than share some of my years to protect my rightful home. Im not admitting to being a coward but just being real. Somebody whos crossed this reading momma done told them at a time, they "aint goin to damn army", that "I aint losing my baby for no GI grant"... Imminent danger is always among us. We are the most envied. America, we are. Nothing really else to say about it. So there will always(as long as there isn't a draft- and we know we dont want that) be a need for service.Because there is a price. Yet we dont knock the ones that opt not to serve. In some countries it is a birthright or (in stricter circumstances) a mandate on right to live. Is it the same thing, sounds the same, but i'd beg to differ, a little. In any case The ones that do. Well.. Some... Can not serve, better yet serve comfortably, in their own skin as they are. You saw Glory... If you didnt you should. Get back to me. But willing men and women- proud men and women- American men and women, of OUR country cannot serve. GAY.
Stand me up with some geeks who got heart who will fight, than some undercover gangsters that will act tough till the first punch thrown. Stand me up with men and women who've faltered in life and now live righteous than some noble acting thieves and unhonorable men. Give me a gay man or woman who will be brave and honor my country the way we so badly need it now. Give me a homosexual, as if I was right in Civil War days a Black Man, filled with honor in his heart and freedom in his eyes. How can a man or woman with pride for there country, not worthy of the price. We do not select the type of money that comes in our types of businesses any longer.. What makes the value of sacrifice, and service and pride in something we all share a different value for someone who's personal views are different from our own...
Shouts to the folk who might have been asked and couldn't tell.
Your still a hero if your position got revealed in my book...
Shouts To Lt. Dan -Q.
