Would you go to war and risk your life for a country that not only aborts the unborn but subsidizes it with money forcibly taken from you? Or how about risk your life for a country that has done everything in its power to shut God out of every aspect of life?
I would not. And for that reason, I don’t love this country.
I would and I have. Personally I don't care if someone loves their country or not that is their decision and one I am comfortable to live with.
I just wanna say you are wrong when it comes to the motivation. Country has nothing to do with it. At the heart of your decision is you love and you were unfortunately born with a servants heart. One that makes you willing to say I am expendable. I am willing to sacrifice because I love the guys on the sides of me and I love those back home.
I was not serving the Lord when I fought I was very much in the world. However, in the silence before the action went down I always made two prayers.
One was, please oh please don't let me fail don't let me fail these guys around me. If I have to die let me please die with honor doing my duty for my brothers.
The other was please if I die don't let it be by some explosion so there is nothing left of me to send back home for burial. Please let there be something left of me to bury so when my mother visits, there is some of me there for her.
There is a song I love to listen to the lyrics area as follows, with the reason being I like the song cause to me captures what our true motivation is in a song.
Lyrics are:
Keith Urban Lyrics
"For You"
(from "Act Of Valor" soundtrack)
All I saw was smoke and fire
I didn't feel a thing
But suddenly I was rising higher
And I felt like I just made
The biggest mistake
When I thought about my unborn child
When I thought about my wife
And the answer rang out clear
From somewhere up above
No greater gift has man
Than to lay down his life for love
And I wonder, would I give my life
Could I make that sacrifice
If it came down to it
Could I take the bullet, I would
Yes I would, for you
Maybe you don't understand
I don't understand it all myself
But there's a brother on my left and another on my right
And in his pocket just like mine
He's got a photograph
And they're waiting for him back home
It's weighing on my mind
I'm not trying to be a hero
I don't wanna die
But right now in this moment, you don't think twice
I wonder, would I give my life
Could I make that sacrifice
If it came down to it
Could I take the bullet, I would
Yes I would
You don't think about right
You don't think about wrong
You just do what you gotta do, to defend your own
I'd do the same
For you
Yes I would
I would give my life
I would make that sacrifice
Cause if it came down to it
Could I take a bullet
I would
Yes I would
I'd do it for you
I'd do it for you
I take a bullet
Yes I would