What We Tend to Forget
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Yesterday I saw an Enlisted Service Record for a soldier in WWI. He was a miner from Montrose, WV who served in the artillery. He participated in a great number of battles to include the great Meuse-Argonne Offensive. The man has since past away and is hardly remembered anymore. The war itself is probably not remembered either. They called it the war to end all wars because that’s how destructive it was. They thought surely that we would not want to fight anymore wars after that. Wrong…just a few decades later a war of even greater destruction was waged. As I looked at this man’s service record (this is prior to the DD 214, it was issued by the Department of War) I thought on how no one recalls this guy or the war he was sent to. Already I feel that way with Iraq, and it is apparently the case in Afghanistan, and we are still there! It seems that we are always doomed to be forgotten along with our wars. This is one of the many reasons I wrote this book, in hopes that its memory would be recalled by someone-however few that may be.
On another note, I have also come to realize that I have been quoted by the Christian Examiner.
