My daddy always said it isn't who served in a war that made you a vet, it is the one willing to defend the honor of our rights that makes you a vet. For the longest time I could never figure it out, and it irritated me so much. Then he got sick and my mom tried her hardest to get him help and she was finally able to get one doctor to listen to her. Now, my mom is tired of fighting the war with the doctors and everyone else and I'm the one doing it for him to make sure he gets everything he needs.

The point of it was to never give up on what you believe in and love. My daddy was a military sniper and he served in the war overseas and he loved it, but he also had to defend the honor of fallin soldiers and that was saddening to him. The all had families that had to be told and a few of them where his friends that he just didn't want to believe had been killed, but he stayed and defended what he believed in. I got very lucky to have a father that is who he is, a very good man and like every other man been through a lot. He loves my mom and his family, but his heart lies with his buddies in the military. He no longer has friends from the military that he sees nor do they want anything to do with each other, not sure what happened there, but when it comes down to it he still knows his buddies. Especially the ones that were fallin and will not get to see their children, grandchildren or great-grandchildren.....

My daddy no longer has any military papers to prove anything they were burned up in a fire, he went up there yesterday to get a breakfast and couldn't because it was so packed and he said the line was all the way back to the Bakery as which is where my hubby works and no where to sit. So he left and Craig sent home a cinnamon roll for him to have, I felt bad about that if my dad would have told me he was going I could have already had his breakfast ready for him. My daddy just had surgery and wasn't really suppose to be driving let alone walking as far as he did, I could have dropped him off at the front and called in his breakfast to have it ready, then he could have went to the Bakery to eat while getting a free pumpkin pie. Oh well!

Thank you for all you guys have done, it has been wonderful! Dwood87 I hope your wife gets to feeling better soon and to a point I agree with you, but I don't. They are heroes because they were willing to take their lives for this country, but the ones that got to come home is also a hero for defending the ones that were falling and the everyone else's honors too.