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(1,622 posts)...I have spent the last 35 years of my life away from my family and loved ones, living and working in austere, miserable environments and dangerous conditions, doing my part to keep this flawed but still wonderful country safe from it's enemies and from people who would be happy to carve out YOUR eyes just because you're an American. I've held the hands of friends and comrades as they lay dying from gunshots and IEDs, and I've picked up and bagged body parts in order to make sure that devastated families back home had something, ANYTHING to weep over and bury. I've rescued hostages, comforted surviving victims of ethnic cleansing, fed babies who had no one left to do so, and helped make sure life-sustaining supplies were safely delivered through hostile territory to desperate human beings who were in dire need of them in order to stay alive.
I could go on but I'll just leave it there because I've done it and will continue to do it without wanting or needing any recognition whatsoever from anyone other than those who were and are there with me.
And you?
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