"I'm Out Here on the Front Lines, Sleep in Peace Tonight"

An ode to those who served and are serving on this Veterans Day!

It's something we don't think about much. We go home, lay our heads down on our pillows, and perhaps worry about bills, relationships, work, or a million other things, but we don't give our freedom a second thought. In America, we are hot-headed and divided nowadays, and we complain about the political right, the political left, and everyone in between. We act as though a politician protects our very societal fabric or threatens it, depending on our point of view. The fact is that politicians have never won or lost this idea of America that we so often take for granted. Men and women of every race and every background have taken up the flag of this nation at great cost to themselves and their families to protect it. My great uncle, who was in the trenches in WWI, always used to say that no one asks what political party you're with in a foxhole. The fact is, America has always been blessed by those who have been willing to stand the line for liberty, and they have sustained us for 250 years.

Today is Veterans Day! Sleep in peace tonight because of an "American Soldier" (a great song by Toby Keith). I use soldier in its broadest sense, as I am certainly including Airmen, Marines, Guardians, Soldiers, and Sailors. A soldier has stood on the front lines with their brothers and sisters to defend our great nation from the beginning. Today we say thank you to those who serve, those who have served, and even those who will serve. May God shed His grace on all of you and may your nation never forget you!

Onward and Upward, 

Dale Steenbergen