I’m hoping that everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Our’s was quite…I take this time to think about those who were not at our table. And also to think about others who have empty places to.
I think back to Vietnam, and those that never made it home. Friends I grew up with that never got a chance to grow old, who died…not fighting for some abstract believe of freedom…but for each other. Children they never got to see grow into fine aduts with children of their own. Grandchildren they never got to hold…to spoil.
Then I look at those in Iraq and Afganistan today. Those that have died…as in wars past, and those that I’m sure are yet to come. These people to, dying before their time, leaving children behind that they will never see grow into adults.
I guess if I had one wish for this Thanksgiving it would be this. Just once, to have a leader that would think about the empty places around tables, all over this nation, that their war causes. The children most of all.
SNAKE
I wish that I had read it first this morning because I had “not so good” of a time last night and this is very healing. It is healing knowing that I am not alone in feeling this way. I have done my best to exercise patience and understanding through this period in my life while continuing to move forward and move the peace forward in as positive of a way I can, but sometimes I run short. I run out.
Snake,
Nice sentiments.
At my house I do a short “to whom it may concern” prayer since we’re not religeous. But it’s good to pass wishes and thanks out from the heart so they don’t linger there, bottled up. I wished for the same things you did, even though I’m abivalent to say the least about our military and what it’s doing abroad. But more than that, I lamented the deaths of thousands of innocent people in the countries we invaded. People who had no way to defend themselves. I think that before any leader can consider the lives of his soldiers he has to be capable of considering the innocent lives that are always lost when those soldiers are sent out, no matter the mission or it’s legitimacy.