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Veterans Day 2019

November 11, 2019 is Veterans Day. For Beverly and me, it is 17th anniversary of the funeral of our oldest son, Captain Ryan Todd Wahl. Todd was killed while serving in the Air Force in 2002. He was buried with full military honors on Veteran’s Day that same year. The Air Force even dedicated two missions, one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq, as a tribute to his life and service (which is a great honor for a fallen Air Force officer). Sometimes it’s hard to believe that 17 years have passed so quickly. Our 30-year-old daughter, Pamela, was in middle school at the time. Our son, Dr. Aaron Wahl, who is now married with two children, was still in Chiropractic school.

Almost 2500 years ago, Sophocles wrote, “Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life”. Beverly can tell you that statement still rings true today. That’s why she has made certain we continue to dedicate our lives to helping other families. Nothing brings us more pleasure than knowing someone, especially a child, has a better future after coming to see us. It somehow helps us move forward on days like this.

Have you noticed how often politicians like to whip up a crowd with gung-ho military sound bites? Have you also noticed that the scariest rhetoric comes from the mouths of those politicians who haven’t served or who have made sure their children haven’t seen combat?

Promoting, protecting, and being proud of the sacrifices made by all our military men and women (and their families) is quite different than praising or promoting war and the death of others. To bring that point home, the following two quotes are from two very different American Presidents who both served in the military:

• “I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can; only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.”
—Dwight Eisenhower

• “War is sometimes a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.”
– Jimmy Carter

This Veteran’s Day, regardless of your political or religious inclination, please make sure you thank the Veterans you know—including the men and women currently in our Armed Forces—for their service to your country. It is fun to honor your favorite sports team. It is your duty to honor the Vets who have served.

And while you’re at it, please add prayers for peace and healing for all the soldiers who have come home wounded and scarred physically or emotionally for the rest of their lives—as well as for all the families whose loved ones will never come home. God bless them all.

For every Like and Share of this post, we will donate to Operation Food Search in memory of Captain Todd Wahl. Sharing is caring.

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