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It's just a job is how some of us soldiers perceive it but deep inside we know that our life is on the line every day. We serve here in the States and serve over Seas we are serving when we are sleeping, we are serving long after we had served our time.
We see things of which are unseen by nearly all mankind and live with the choices we made or make and sometimes it is the cost of our families that we pay to keep freedom in these United States.

Disrespect from those who disagree with what we stand for but when they need our help they cry in mercy for our help. Some of us have lost our homes and vehicles along with the families, a few even loose their jobs when they return. Some loose even more than that as their sanity goes by the way. Others say we change when we return and maybe we have, but so have they. We come home to a land where we can no longer afford to buy gasoline and barely put groceries no the table; but for what cause? Because we know that there are those who cannot protect themselves from the evil in this world, in return we may get a smile but when we are not looking we get the fork in our back.
I wish I could really tell you how it feels to be a soldier but that is something you would have to experience yourself to understand. Everyone wants to spend our money for us while we are away and say we are being taken cared for by the Government; this is true they do take care of us, but our finances are all we have when we come back home when no one else cares but that is just part of being a soldier. I wish you could understand that we put our selves in harms way in hopes you wont get hurt, but when we are home we have to pay our own doctor bills. We fight so that you may keep the things you worked for all your life, but when we come home everything we had is gone. I remember one day having to walk from the bus station to my mothers house and not one ride was offered to me. Is this the kind of people I am fighting for? Ones who don't care about the ones who are protecting them; ones who cannot see that without us there would be no them?
Life is hard in all directions as a civilian or military personal but as military we see both sides and feel what it is to be one and the other. What do you feel? What do you see, each time you see a soldier on the blue screen who has fallen in your place?

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