Resilience
BY Herschel Smith
5 years ago
This is a moving video by Haley Strategic. Several things crossed my mind as I watched this.
First, I have no particular fondness for Veteran’s Day. I don’t like the idea of taking a day to supposedly honor veterans. It becomes pro forma to me. What I do like, however, is veterans like Travis, and his director of training, engaging in things like this for veterans on a continual basis. Good on them
Next, the story of Robert Bruce is inspiring.
Finally, I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I think often and hard about the lives lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the men lost from Daniel’s Battalion, and it weights heavily on me from time to time. I’m certain it weighs more heavily on me than it does the bastards who deployed them on unnecessary deployments, or on necessary deployments with overly-restrictive ROE designed to get them killed or maimed. If you are in that camp, that is, if you were in a position to make a difference and you didn’t, then these things will doubtless weigh heavily on you in the hereafter. You don’t kill and maim men without eternal consequences.
On November 14, 2019 at 12:10 am, BRVTVS said:
I agree that Veterans’ Day as such isn’t a good justification for a holiday, but Veterans’ Day was originally Armistice Day, the day we celebrated the end of WWI on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month. I do agree with remembering the end to that horrible war.