On the Eighth Day And on the eighth day, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need a protector for this world I have made”; and so, God Made a Soldier God said, “I need someone ready to get up before dawn and clean his rifle, shine his boots, clean his rifle again, and then enter a world of foreign tongues who cuss his very existence, while he smiles and says how do you do;” So God Made a Soldier “I need someone with strong shoulders of which to carry the nation whose shoulders carry the world, but gentle enough to place his child on when and if he comes back alive; Somebody able and willing to call men from different races, places, and walks of life his brothers while they enter the valley of the shadow of death; and come home to a place where even his own spit on his morals, his beliefs; the very same whom could not spit without him;” So God Made a Soldier God said, “I need somebody to stand beside a man for nine years and call him his brother, then carry the man home on his back, lower the man’s body six feet into the ground, dry his tears, turn to his comrade’s family and say, we’re proud of your son. I need someone to clear his goggles with spit when he sweats too much, tie up his wounds with a tee shirt when he bleeds too much, and dry his eyes with whiskey when he weeps too much; someone who will run when he can’t run anymore, stand up for his country when his legs are numb, and fight for liberty, even when liberty is fighting against him.” So God Made a Soldier God had to have someone willing to give 110% of himself to a world that requires only 20%; someone who conducts himself the same whether in uniform, Sunday best, and a John Deere hat; someone to work all day, all night, all year, and all his life until his beard becomes too gray. So God Made a Soldier God said, “I need somebody to do what he has to do so his country can lay down their heads at peace at night, while his enemies sleep only when he does, which needless to say is not very often;” So God Made a Soldier It had to be someone who would put the needs of others above his own; somebody to swear on a book that his enemies burn; somebody to sweat, bleed, fight, and kill one day, and drive to church with his family the next; and then, look, with eyes broken from seeing too much, as his son says he wants to spend his life doing what his dad does. So God Made a Soldier -Ben Morse, March 7th 2013
Posted on: Sat, 14 Sep 2013 23:29:12 +0000
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