….we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender…
– Winston Churchill
It’s Europe 1945. You and your buddies are in a tank battalion sent to Europe to fight off thousands of Germans and defeat Nazi Germany from the tyrannical oppression created by this seemingly unstoppable country that has grown incredible strength. You left your job and were drafted just eight weeks prior before training in the Army to serve in a M4 Sherman tank. You are scared that you might not make it out alive. You miss your buddies back home, and you’re too young to be married. You don’t even have a girlfriend. You’re family is worried about you. You are ready to make the sacrifice.
The men around you are battle-hardened and ready. They have been to Africa, France, and now you are in Germany. They have seen the horrors of war, and are not strangers to death and killing. They are calloused, and do not put up with cowardice or lies. They see the truth in life, and see the truth of the true nature of man – men have the capacity for unspeakable violence.
The landscape is mostly mud. The men are dirty, tired, and weary, but most of all, they are ready to go home. You yourself can’t believe you got yourself in this situation, but know you have to be brave. Your buddies around you are counting on you. They are counting on you to perform, to be your best. All of this matters, because it’s at the stake of American lives.
The sacrifices made before us are too great and too unenumerable to count. From the time we supposedly made our way from the savannah of East Africa to the cold Alps of Europe, to the harsh climate of Asia across the Bering Straight to the mild climate of North America and more tropical, humid climate of Asia human beings have been at war. Hundreds of thousands lost their lives in the Crusades, in the belief they were sacrificing for God. Hundreds of thousands more died fighting the Romans when Rome sought to expand it’s already incredibly vast empire, and thousands more died in the Revolutionary War to gain independence from Great Britain. Still, thousands more died and sacrificed in the “war to end all wars” during World War I in the trenches of Europe, and thousands more died and sacrificed to free the world of Japan’s and Germany’s tyranny during World War II.
This amount of sacrifice can’t be quantified, and can’t be imagined by a mortal human being like you and me. We can try to imagine after knowing the sacrifice has been made, and after the heroes have fell.
“What implications does this have for you and me?” you might ask. Well there is one implication. This is to recognize the sacrifice and honor it. To know that there was some kid sent to fight and die in a war thousands of miles away 80 years ago to only never return. Or to only return with a slew of battle scars, lost friends, and unspeakable nightmares.
We can honor it by remembering the sacrifices made, and not only remember those sacrifices that were made but also carry out our remembrance of those who sacrificed by not focusing on the the problems in our life that are relatively small.
When your girlfriend breaks up with you, it is not the end of the world. For you to even exist, for you’re ex-girlfriend to even exist, and the fact that the relationship even existed is nothing short of a miracle. Your grandfather’s generation had to make incredible sacrifices and endure undefined amounts of pain for you to exist today. If they didn’t fight the Germans in the 1940’s and spend years in Sherman M4 tanks taking artillery fire, you or her may never have been born or at the very best, would be speaking German right now under a Nazi regime.
So, during your breakup with your ex-girlfriend, remember to not think about what you don’t have, but be thankful for the things you do have. We are alive. We are breathing. We won the war. We have freedom – all because of the previous generation’s sacrifice. Remember it everyday, and remember these people every single day, and maybe we can make our own sacrifices to make things better for the next generation. I promise that will make it better.
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