belief and cause any better or worse than our enemies? When the enemy is in our rifle sights, what is the thought and intent in our heart when we squeeze the trigger?
I speak as a soldier not for the soldiers; I served my
time and done what I had to do; I serve with honor for God and country and with respect for my opponents. Although I disagreed with their beliefs and their cause I had to respect them; I could not find it in myself to hate them.
Their beliefs both religious and political was just as strong to them as mine were to me; should I hate them and want to kill them for their convictions just because they differed from mine?
If that were the case I’d be short some family members and friends. I have to live with my conscious and answer to my creator in the
end.
It’s a little over thirty years now and I still have sleepless
nights and bad dreams occasionally; certain sounds send shivers up my spine and I duck for cover. I faced my enemy not with the intent and desire to kill him, but with the intent and desire to
preserve my life and my comrades and the freedom of my country.
I felt in my heart that he (my enemy) was fighting for the same reason I was, his beliefs, his way of life, his country.
War is something that’s going to be on earth until Jesus Christ
returns . . . that’s a given; in war there is going to be death and innocent people are going to get caught in the cross fire. That’s a tragedy . . . but it happens and there’s no way around it.
The military did not train me to kill, ‘nobody needs to be
trained to kill’ the military trained me to survive, it taught me personal discipline and endurance. Part of a soldier’s duty is to fight when the need arises, in fighting he/she may have
to kill . . . this is the part of the job very few soldiers look forward
to.
By the grace of God I have been able to keep the past in check without drugs or alcohol and suicide has never crossed my mind; to this I give God thanks because He kept the hatred and vengeance out of my heart.
Soldiers are our country’s defenders . . . not hired murderers.
There is difference between killing and murdering . . . it's in the heart.
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