Unto the breach

Thanks to those who noticed I have not been blogging lately and encouraged me to start writing again.

Once more unto the breach

               I have taken a pause from writing for no good reason other than the excuse of going through another difficult time in my life and the excuse that I’m not very good with the IT portion of attempting to run this blog. So, to get back into blogging again, I am taking a different tact. This one is to my fellow warriors.

               “Unto the breach”

In peace there’s nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility;

But when the blast of war blows in our ears,

Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,

Disguise fair nature with hard-favor’d rage.

               -Shakespeare’s Henry V, Act III, Scene I

               For those of us who have served, do not forget that we are the 1%… Amongst the very few that raised our right hands to defend our communities, states, and/or our Nation. Ultimately, we pledged our lives to defend others. As we embarked on our journey of recovery from addiction, post-traumatic stress, depression, anxiety, traumatic brain injury, we faced our internal enemy. The darkness that we see when we look in the mirror. We found a path to combat our inner demons. We surrendered our lives and our will to a power greater than ourselves. We learned stillness and humility. But we are still warriors. So, in my opinion, each of us has an extremely unique and powerful experience. Harness that warrior experience, mindset, discipline – to combat the inner enemy. Show kindness, grace, love, and compassion to those we have hurt in our darkness, forgiveness for those that hurt us. Be a knight in the best way, and slay the inner enemy, because every day I wake up, I go back into the breach.

Thanks, shout out to 1^st PLT, A/54^th EN BN “Breach Hell”