<p>A great man once said, “The greatest love one can have is to lay down his life for a friend.” I’m not sure what your outlook on life is, but that goal of selflessness is what really guides me. I don’t WANT to kill people. I don’t WANT to put my family through the stress of having a soldier for a son. I don’t WANT to stare death in the face. (I’m not implying that any of these are your motivations either.) But what I do want, with every bone in my body, is to be where I am needed most desperately, and where I can make some kind of a positive difference. Right now that place happens to be Iraq. In a few years it could be anywhere. Let the Lord and the Army point me where to go and leave the wrangling to the politicians. Just let me do my job, let me help someone in need, and let me where the flag on my shoulder.</p>
<p>PS- That body-dragging story is atrocious, but it just cements what seperates us from them, as well as displays the kind of people we would be entrusting that country to if we were to pull out early. May God be with the Captain’s family and may He have mercy on those animals’ souls.</p>