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.

Seasonal changes and complexities as we meander among our potentialities are frequently perceived through many lenses. Adaptation from one moment to another, pace and scheduling, and experience to the imagined and envisioned provide for conceptually internalized alterations. Concepts the communicated, observed, internalized, abstract, and indifferent appeal to the uniquenesses of the journey.

The rationales, reasonings, and exponential factors of the human condition among circumstances present potential for the differentiated paths of parallel universal outcomes or conclusions transporting from one choice or decision to another. The uncertainty of today and possibilities of the future hurl about among reality, options, and the conceptually viable.