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What a ride I have been on. I had surgery on my left eye on Monday, and it is healing quite well. Still hard to type, but I will not leave my post. I will share a story from my upcoming book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of Life. I was injured, but stayed on my duty spot.
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One of the things that happened to day which is Veteran’s Day, is nothing. I had to head to the coast and they didn’t have any restaurants on the list I gave you a couple of posts ago.
I went to the very small town of Waldport, Oregon. It is right on the coast. It is actually a pretty cool town.
I was there to get a haircut at the salon where my wife always goes, because a close friend is running it. We drive 70 miles each way to get our hair done.
As I was getting my haircut, the barber told me to look across the street. In this small little town the people were gathering to honor our veterans. You could see all the American Legion hats being worn. She said they have been there for a couple of hours. They had speakers, and some music. I so wanted to go there and greet them, but it was over when my haircut was done.
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I said I would share an excerpt from the book, Signs of Hope for the Military: In and Out of the Trenches of Life. This excerpt is from my time deployed to Korea. I was a radio/teletype (053) operator, and spent each of my days up on hill 468. On top of that hill was a small military outpost. It was being used to monitor the airwaves for breaches of security.
I was highly trained for that site since I was chosen to be a part of the Army Security Agency. It was something like the CIA of the military.
One day I was monitoring he airwaves when every started stopping. The machines all began to turn off.
I rushed outside to see that the main generator was out of gas. The previous solider was suppose to make sure it was full before he left.
I got two cans of gas and climbed up on the generator. I had just finished filling the tank when I started to fall. I grabbed for something to help me not get too hurt. Unfortunately it was the manifold for the generator. It was extremely hot and it burnt my left hand seriously.
I was in severe pain.
I could have called down to headquarters and have them send up the next shift, but that would wake them up with only a few hours of sleep.
I decided I need to remain at my post and tough it out. I found some Vaseline and wrapped my left hand with a medical cloth.
I was one handed and had to work the the equipment the best I could.
Luckily I only had a few hours left on my shift.
This was a time where I learned about not leaving your post no matter what. Many of heroes have done that on the front lines to save many of their buddies. I certainly was not a hero in this case, but I did my appointed task and I am very proud of that.
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Time to check in on you my friend. How are you doing? Is the life we have to live right now starting to get to you? Does the news cause you to scream like it does me? You certainly are not alone.
We just past 10,000 veterans following this site. (10,040.) Everyone of us has your back.
However, if it is just too overwhelming right now, GET HELP! Here is a toll free number to call, 24/7. There are highly qualified counselors there to help you. They will not hang up until the know you are OK. It is free BTW.
1-800-273-8255 Option # 1
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Remember:
You are never alone.
You are never fosaken.
You are never unloved.
And above all…never, ever, give up!
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