I too am a rather stoical person, lacking much emotion, not affected by much. Some of that is PTSD.
But if I get within sight of the Wall (like when I rode down with the Legion Riders last year) I can't keep the tears in.
Yesterday, area restaurants gave free meals to serving military and veterans. The usual "old guys" (tm) showed up, but there were a number of recently seperated, young, veterans partaking too. And some female vets, with small children.
Until you actually look at it, I mean really look at what they are doing for us today, and what they've done for us in the past, you can't even begin to understand the courage and heroism and blood its taken to get us to the point where a black man can be President of the United States and kids can occupy Wall Street without being rounded up and shot dead.
I don't like where we are economically, or politically, or socially, but its a darn sight better than what it would have been without the many sacrifices made by American soldiers.
Living the Gypsy Life