Lest we forget (1 Viewer)

[Martin Tabony]

With rememberance day comming on 11/11/11

 

[Mitch]

To them and all the others. we will never forget.
Mitch

 

[Louis Badolato]

My son asked me yesterday, "how do soldiers shooting each other make the world better?"

I didn't know what to say. I thought about it for a bit, then I told him sometimes bad people want to hurt us, and soldiers, like his Great Uncle Joe, risk and sometimes give their lives to protect us. Without them, bad people would hurt us. That's why its important to remember Great Uncle Joe, Great Uncle John, Great Uncle Jack, and Great Uncle Leo (WWII Vets), Grampa, Great Uncle Dominick, Great Uncle Frank (Korean War Vets) and all the other soldiers who fought, and sometimes died, for us.

That little conversation with my son was, for me, what "lest we forget" really means.

 

[Currahee Chris]

My son asked me yesterday, "how do soldiers shooting each other make the world better?"

I didn't know what to say. I thought about it for a bit, then I told him sometimes bad people want to hurt us, and soldiers, like his Great Uncle Joe, risk and sometimes give their lives to protect us. Without them, bad people would hurt us. That's why its important to remember Great Uncle Joe, Great Uncle John, Great Uncle Jack, and Great Uncle Leo (WWII Vets), Grampa, Great Uncle Dominick, Great Uncle Frank (Korean War Vets) and all the other soldiers who fought, and sometimes died, for us.

That little conversation with my son was, for me, what "lest we forget" really means.

Great post Louis, hard question to answer to the younger minds, which is why I try to shield my kids from "army stuff" as much as possible- I am not a master of the quick response, which is why if my kids asked me that, I would sit there like a deer in headlights and they'd assume I was too dumb to know the answer, which is probably correct anyway{sm4}{sm3}