Memorial Day.. retrospections

Being intro/retrospective today.. Thinking of all the Veterans.. past, present, and future. My Grandfather, Father-In-Law, Uncles, Cousins, Friends, and millions of whom I have no relation to.. other than that we are all brothers and sisters of the Human race. I am extremely thankful and proud off these brave soldiers for their service, sacrifice, and extreme courage, but I am simultaneously saddened by the unmitigated suffering and deaths that so many of them have had to endure, often times unnecessarily. Wondering will there ever come a day in the future when we can look back at “WAR” itself as an abolition and a monumental error in the fabric of our human existence here on earth? Is War & Violence just something that’s in our nature and something that we’ll have to live with forever? On this day I also wonder, which will go extinct first.. War or Human Beings? -because it almost seems like it’s got to eventually be one or the other. Regardless of any of that though, I’m thankful that there are folks who are out there protecting me and my family, because lord knows I wouldn’t want to pick up a gun. I just hope there come a day when there won’t be a need for them to do it anymore. I hope there comes a day when human beings evolve to live in true harmony with each other and when, as a wiser than me once said.. “The world can live as one”.