War.

I rarely talk about my experiences in the Military, but today I'll share some of my thoughts. Like many young men my age, I joined the Navy to escape one world and help create another. I left behind the ghettos of New York thinking that I would be "safe" but I learned very quickly that it wasn't. In a moment, everything changed. September 11th, I remember going home from an all night shift in the hospital I worked and saw a plane crashing into a building on the Television. I went to sleep thinking it was a movie. When I woke up a few hours later we were at war. During the first few months, I believed they shipped out 50,000+ Marines and Sailors to Iraq from Camp Lejeune. My job, was taking care of the families of those soldiers back on base, and also sadly treating many Marines who returned from the war injured, both physically and mentally. I saw things that people should not see, and I got the relatively "easy part" of the duties. It was tough. It broke many of my friends and many lives were forever altered and destroyed because of it. I remember feeling an immense hatred at the time for my Commander And Chief, President Bush. I thought he was an evil man and had no true consideration for those who served this country. This experience was a brutal one, and I was on the verge of losing my mind in there. It changed my perspective and thoughts immensely about politics, love, lost and war. When I see people now, working very hard to create tension and problems with our current President I wonder if they know what they are really doing? What the severity of the consequences could be? But how could they? They have never been to war, and have never served. How could they possibly understand what a war would actually mean? I am now, a man of peace and love. I choose to love those who may not love me, but everyone doesn't feel the same way. I can tell you this from my experience though, in a matter of hours we could be at war again. God bless us all, and have mercy on our souls. #Veteran