A Solider’s Duty

It’s never easy to leave your home. 

It’s never easy to leave your loved ones behind.

It’s never easy to be the brave one. 

It’s never easy to face death in its fullest.

A soldier’s duty is not to fight. 

It’s to make the decision to sacrifice. 

In a way, we are all soldiers. 

We do what we can to protect our families 

But real soldiers don’t care only for their family's well-being. 

They care for a random stranger. 

We don’t have such soldiers. 

Ours are doing this because they don’t have a choice.

No one likes to lose their family members. 

But it’s a soldier’s responsibility to know what he’s facing. 

Sometimes families might not have a body to bury. 

Sometimes war takes away everything.

The pain of losing a friend. 

The pain of killing a noble person. 

The guilt of knowing that people on the other side of the war have died because of you. 

It’s always been hard.

They say that participation is what matters. 

So the hundred who lay dead matter because they participated? 

Really? We don’t even know any one of their names. 

But it’s not a soldier’s duty to be remembered. 

It’s to know that even though you or I won’t remember them. They made a difference.