From a veteran, the anons are impressive. All volunteers, unpaid, all for love of country. A civilian population that endeavors to be worthy sons and daughters of their nation.
Thank you for your service.
More accurately thank you for giving a fuck enough to serve our nation. It is a choice, and you could have chosen not to.
You likely won't get any memorials or awards or accolades, but when all is said and done no monument is greater than the lives and work and loss and victory they represent. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, I always thought of as applying to any and every patriot who did their good work because it needed to be done, and not for recognition. We honor the Unknown Soldier because he is simultaneously none of us and all of us at the same time. He was an Anon and a soldier.
From a veteran, the anons are impressive. All volunteers, unpaid, all for love of country. A civilian population that endeavors to be worthy sons and daughters of their nation.
Thank you for your service.
More accurately thank you for giving a fuck enough to serve our nation. It is a choice, and you could have chosen not to.
You likely won't get any memorials or awards or accolades, but when all is said and done no monument is greater than the lives and work and loss and victory they represent. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, I always thought of as applying to any and every patriot who did their good work because it needed to be done, and not for recognition. We honor the Unknown Soldier because he is simultaneously none of us and all of us at the same time. He was an Anon and a soldier.
You have no idea how much your words resonate with me!