There is an annual celebration of life scheduled strategically and subtly positioned upon the calendar among hundreds of opportunities presented our lifestyles, careers, and familial close times. The doctor’s appointments, children’s engagements, and family gatherings commemorate anniversaries, special occasions, and random oddities of life. Singularly through intelligent manipulation and use of a calendar’s hidden asset, one locates a tool! The marvel of science, the sun, the moon, the cosmos, and functionally viable instrument of punctuality assisting one to remember to plan for stress management, reflection, ponderance, thought, and commiseration. Time, money, and resources three things many from the most esteemed of society to the most humble among us utilize as the barometer of value, investment, appreciation, or depreciation.

The United State Military service men and women since the Revolutionary War commenced in 1775 have successfully protected and preserved the peace. Recorded history maintaining 4,435 deceased persons of honor and 6,188 casualties of circumstance are subtracted from the incalculable of peripherally sustained combat experiences from among our population. Our breakfast, lunch, and dinners are scheduled among factor of happenstance, reality, and random oddities both welcomed and uninvited. Trudging along we battle through circumstances from income inequality, household management, children’s boo boos, and all circum-navigational aspects of probability and statistic or potentialities for parallel universal outcomes and approaches.

Short bursts of energy and time expended to telephone, prepare a meal, or ambulate among our passions ferry one to minute pauses from the circumspected. The ambiance required is irrelevant and is not of mandation of props, pomp, or circumstance. Awe of the cerebrally unconscionable which is the madness of warfare communicate from latitude, longitude, and the depths a desire to celebrate the undying commitment of both common and valiant military service men and women. Collectively as a nation debt ridden through the absence of longevity elevate their honor, unselfishness, and proven capacity for ascension to immortality where mere words and humble actions are all the dumbfounded the speechless may present. Happy Veteran’s Day to the countless military men and women of honor who consciously decide to overlook themselves for the preservation and protection of the peace.

Sacrifice, honor, courage, commitment, class, grace, endearing, and brave. The preceding terminolgy for decription are earned through blood, sweat, and tears. The frequently eternal costs accrued to the Armed Forces is the human capital of the past, present, and future veteran. This is incalculable when or where presented the human capacity to ascertain, conceptualize, and entirely comprehend.

The eyes close as if trying to thwart the scortching heat of a searing sun. With eyes wide opened in a gaze yielding the reflection of one or a combination of many thousands of thoughts, perceptions, and realities. Photographic imagery puchased seemingly through the exchange of one's soul and through the mirage of truths, lies, misinformation, unknowns, and uncertainties. Visions of horror reflecting the realistic, the here and now, and potential alternatives assault the mind irreverently. Minutes are exchanged for hours, hours subsequently become days turning into weeks, and the blur of it all calculates into years. Ageless reels which often play continuously. There are no deviations no intermissions and more discovery as time and environmental factors torment the mind and sacrifice the soul mercilessly stealing today, tomorrow, family, friends, and professions.