A Letter to My Father who Survived Pear Harbor
Dear Daddy,
I felt a very strong need to write this letter to you today. You were there on that day 72 years ago. The “day that will live in Infamy” the bombing of Pearl Harbor. You were one of the lucky ones or I would not be here today. I love you Daddy, and miss you and wish you were here to tell me more about it. It was something we never really talked about and I will regret that forever. I cannot imagine the emotional pain you and every person there went through for the rest of your life. Then you lived through 4 more years of war and your life was on the line everyday. So many young men joined the different service groups knowing that we were at war but they wanted to fight for our freedom. Everybody in our country sacrificed. Women went to work in factories, gave up nylons, lived with rationing. Our country lived with the War and it’s effects daily.
Today we have so many men and women living through horrible trauma but if we are not directly involved with someone serving, we tend to forget. They are still fighting for our freedom in other countries. Many of these brave people are coming back to a life without limbs, brain injuries, the inability to get a job and they are below the radar.
As my way of honoring you and all these brave people, I commit to give a regular monthly donation to one of the groups that help these brave people get back to a more normal life. I say more normal, because I realize for them and anyone going through that trauma, life will probably be a “new normal”. But I also commit to speaking up for the freedom that I grew up knowing and that I want my grandchildren to know as they live their lives. I pray for our country to be governed by honesty and integrity by all parties, Red or Blue. We are one nation under God and I pray that we start living that.
Will those of you who read this make a commitment to honor our brave veterans in some way?
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