I am not going to link this post to FB. I feel like if you read this enough then you will read it. I want to limit comments on my FB wall for this one post.
This has been a very hard week and it is only Tuesday. M2's unit saw it's first set of casualties over the weekend, including a fatality.
War is a very ugly thing.
I recently read this quote and I feel like sharing it for this occasion.
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
I really like this quote. I wish I could tell you who said it but let me just be honest here and tell you I FB stalk! And I read this on someone else's FB page. I am a little disappointed that he did not have the author listed. Shame on him.
It has been a long couple of days. If you read this, please be in prayer for M2's unit, the Soldiers, and the families.
