It is a hard
fact that you can’t truly understand something until you have gone through it
yourself, an aunt can love the child with all her hurt but she will never fully
grasps the unconditional love of the mother, a civilian can appreciate the acts
of a soldier, but never know the lengths he went through to be home. When writing
these blogs I always felt as if I was doing injustice to the military, by
displaying their feelings by my own personal perception of a few movies, and
books I have read. This blog was initially
supposed to be about soldiers coming home, but then I realized there’s no way I
could write on such a topic no matter
how much I researched it . Yes I can speculate how they may feel and even hit
some key aspects like of course relived, happy, confused, etc., but trying to
write a whole blog about it is impossible, seeing that I have never been to war
and don’t plan on going any time soon. I’m
sorry to leave you with such a disappointing blog, but I don’t feel as if any
the topics I had originally planned would suffice to my rendering of it.
I found your post to be rather interesting because we as civilians will not know the feelings that these men have other than things we have read, but I do not know if I find it disrespectful or doing the military injustice. All we are doing is appreciating what these men have gone through and simply stating what we think they may feel. We are not writing these post like we have experienced these events or at least we should not be.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you about this and often feel the exact same. I have never been to war and never plan on joining the military or anything like that. The best I can do is just think what if that was me... but when putting yourself in life or death situations that's a really hard thing to do and often impossible. I may never know how they feel or what i would do in that situation.
ReplyDeleteI also agree. This post is very true. We really will never know some things until we actually go through it. The examples used at the beginning of the blog were interesting and very true. We can only state our opinions based on our own personal experiences.
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