Post by minx on May 30, 2023 8:40:43 GMT -5
For the past two years, I've participated in a project called the Mindful Memory Foundation. Their goal is to have every service member who died as a result of the wars on terror memorialized each Memorial Day.
You get assigned 1-10 people (this year I had 6). They ask you to do a minimal amount of research about them and then make a video saying that they are remembered and post it to social media.
I hate making videos, so instead I do a FB post with information about them.
One thing that really stood out to me was the ages of these men - half were 20. One was 24, one was 29 and the other was 38.
Four people gone before their lives had even begun. One leaving behind children who were too young to remember him, and one leaving children who would forever be remembering their dad and mourning him.
Regardless of how you feel about the wars after 9/11, we should all remember that these men - they went to Iraq and Afghanistan thinking they were doing the right thing and defending our country, and gave their lives doing so.
We lost way too many men and women to those wars. Not all were brave heroes of course, but they did their best and paid with their lives. The least we can do is remember them - hopefully if we do it might help prevent the next war. (HA!)
And yes, I also think of the countless Iraqi and Afghan men and women who's lives have been devastated in these wars, and the men, women and children who lost their lives due to it.
Too many deaths all around.
You get assigned 1-10 people (this year I had 6). They ask you to do a minimal amount of research about them and then make a video saying that they are remembered and post it to social media.
I hate making videos, so instead I do a FB post with information about them.
One thing that really stood out to me was the ages of these men - half were 20. One was 24, one was 29 and the other was 38.
Four people gone before their lives had even begun. One leaving behind children who were too young to remember him, and one leaving children who would forever be remembering their dad and mourning him.
Regardless of how you feel about the wars after 9/11, we should all remember that these men - they went to Iraq and Afghanistan thinking they were doing the right thing and defending our country, and gave their lives doing so.
We lost way too many men and women to those wars. Not all were brave heroes of course, but they did their best and paid with their lives. The least we can do is remember them - hopefully if we do it might help prevent the next war. (HA!)
And yes, I also think of the countless Iraqi and Afghan men and women who's lives have been devastated in these wars, and the men, women and children who lost their lives due to it.
Too many deaths all around.