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Originally Posted by Hooka

I understand completely what you are talking about. My brother and I used to do everything together, he always stood up for me and never did me any wrong, the least I can do for him is do something he loved doing, fighting for the people that he really cared about, I'm not suicidal or anything but it seems that the best way i can Honor him is following in his footsteps, and If I come home in one piece or end up K.I.A. The greatest honor I could ever achieve wouldn't be a medal, It would be me, walking up to his grave and talking to him, telling him we won the war and he is a hero and his death wasn't in vein, just making sure he knows that he is right for what he did, and if I can't do that, then i'll be fucking proud to be laying there next to him in the ground, knowing we both died for what we believed in, he was my bestfriend, he bailed me out of so much shit, I love him, He was like a father to me and i'll do anything in the world to bring him back...If i could, i would switch places with him, He was 26 years old, he left behind a baby boy and a wife that dosen't sleep at night still. I wish I could have been there, I wish i was older when it happened and I truly wish that if i was there, i could have taken the bullets for him, he was so happy to leave and do what he believed was right...the man is my Idol, I know you guys may not understand what i'm talking about..but this is the way i will choose to honor my brother.

I believe it is the right choice. After all this, we all have our own opinions that we share, but please, I know im not the only one with a story, there are thousands...tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people just like me. So please, never say that a war is pointless and no-one should join the military because its a bunch of bullshit, I know most of you have read my story and hopefully taken it to heart, the Military isn't a bunch of crazy ass guys that love to run around killing and murdering people. Most Soldiers join with a purpose, and incase you where wondering what my purpose to join was..? The day my older brother left, I wrote on a piece of paper everything i could think about how he was going to be a hero and come home, and at the end I wrote "I promise that I will fight by your side when I am old enough, I love you Big Bro" and to tell all you the truth, I forgot about writing that note until I was at his funeral and I saw it laying on his coffin. He had kept it the whole time, I opened it up to see if it was the note and i was shocked , he wrote back on it saying "If anything happens to me, I wan't you to know that i'll always watch over you, and never let anyone do you harm" then he signed the date..I realized how much the letter ment to me because he wrote on the letter as soon as he found out his unit was going into heavy combat..2 weeks before he was killed, I'm going to carry that letter with me the whole time i'm over there and show my Brother that I can help finish what he started. I'm going to leave this thread now...I truthfully can't talk about it anymore, I hope you all understand that Most soldiers choose to go into Service because they have a reason, not because they want to help our government.

Thank you all for listening, I hope everyone can take something out of this.

Very understandable, and don't get me wrong, it's great that you want to honor your brother but joining up with a task force run by a bunch of greedy politicians and killing other humans isn't the way to go about it. You claim people don't join to help the government, but for other reasons, I can see NO other logical reason to join the military and possibly risk your life for, you know what your doing and you probably know deep down that it is wrong to kill, your putting your enemies families in the same pain you were put through when your brother passed away. Without the whole brother ordeal, imagine it never happened, now why would you want to join the military?

Let's say your brother didn't join and didn't die, you wouldn't join? If that is correct then tell me how this makes sense: Throwing your life on the line for a bunch of suits that don't care about you and risking your own life and PTSD as well as trauma or terminal injury, all just because your brother died? You are not honoring him in any way, I hate to say it but you are just doing the wrong thing, you and your family have a very warped view of honor.

I hope you realize your doing more harm than good in joining the military, your family has a military history, and they're decisions to join and die put all their loved ones back home in misery all because they wanted to feel honorable, their families at home are innocent people, and your brother goes out there and puts himself in front of bullets just so the rest of the family never has a wink of sleep for the rest of their lives. You are HURTING your family by joining the military, if you die you will leave your family behind and it will destroy their life, you would be responsible for putting your family in deep depression and misery. True honor is NOT joining the military, be the one in your family who actually does the smart thing and stays with their loved ones and lives a happy life, be the first one to do the true honor of staying alive instead of having your whole family tree massacred by the militarys risk factor and death toll is no honroable act at all, in fact, I hate to say it, but it's actually a very selfish thing to do, joining the military puts your family in extreme worry and if something happened to you, you would ruin their lives, ALL for the same of just because your brother got shot and died, if it makes you feel any better the man who probably shot him is probably dead by now and was killed right after shooting your brother, so there's no need to get revenge or honor him.

This really sounds like a bad post and I apologize if I done anything to make it seem hostile, but my thoughts on this are pretty extreme and I'm just trying to help a fellow man out to become the best man in his family and not throw his life and family into peril and misery for the sake of shooting people that you are ordered to die by men in suits who sleep all night peacefully, while your family lays in bed awake thinking about you all night.