Journal #27

I think having to go really far away from home to defend our country would be hard. In the first place, that takes a tremendous amount of strength and courage to be able to put your life on the line every minute of the day in a war, and it does not help that you have to be stationed away from home for long periods at a time. Personally, I do not think I could do it. I do not think that I would be able to handle the stress that you have to deal with in this situation. I would miss my parents the rest of my family and friends. Letters, emails, and Skype calls just do not cut having a real life conversation in person. I have never moved before, so I've lived in the same house my entire life, so I'm sure how I would cope with being away for such a long time with no familiarity with anyone or anything. I have to get used to being away from home with college though. I plan on going far away to school in Nevada. Also, my parents are going to be retiring in a year or two and moving to Nevada too, so that helps with not being to homesick because they will only be a seven hour drive away. I think that having control of a gun and being in the situation where you might have to hurt someone would be really hard. I really respect everyone in the service for being able to get though that and protect our country because I know that I would not be able too. I have a cousin in the military, but she is currently only stationed in North Carolina because she and her boyfriend just had a baby. She had to go to Afghanistan two years ago, and that was really scary cause I did not want anything bad to happen to her, or anyone really.