No greater love

I am so grateful for one major thing that my husband has engendered in me. That being total honor and respect for our nations military. Oh don't get me wrong, it isn't like the respect was never there, but looking at our nation through the eyes of my husband brought a whole new outlook in my heart whenever it came to honoring the United States military.



I guess to be honest it started on September 11, 2001. Kevin and I had been married 10 days and in Oshkosh 4 days. We watched and discussed the happenings of that day, and prayed along with the rest of the nation. It was on this day the scripture in the Bible "Greater Love Has No Man than this than He Lay down His life for his friends." I thought about it in particular in relation to those firefighters and first responders at the towers going up those stairs, just doing their job, knowing probably they would not come back down. I stood in awe.....



But as my husband and I talked, he assured me that we would probably have more days like this and how he had experienced a bombing in Germany by a local terrorist group. He assured me that the wonderful men and women who serve our US military would be there doing the same thing that they have always done. As many have told it to me "I was only doing my job."



An Army nurse I know repeatedly reminds me there are only two who willingly lay their life down for us......One is Jesus Christ, and the other is the American soldier.



I listened as a mother received word from her daughter serving in Afghanistan of several young men and women who laid down their lives and this mother had to try to comfort her daughter as best she could from so many miles away. As so many mothers have done before.



I pray we all remember the strength and character of the young people who serve us today. They follow with pride a great heritage that has kept this nation strong.



I thank you my dear dear husband for helping me to know what price has been paid for the freedom that I have. I will owe you my gratitude till we meet again.....and I am able to tell you face to face.





Until then my love......







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