What is Real.

There are a lot of things going on today. Perhaps I should focus on the fact that the House is going to vote on a huge mistake tomorrow. Perhaps, like most conservatives today, I should be venting outrage at President Obama’s creepy unconcern about the lives of our military. But I don’t want to.

Instead, today, I want to say one thing and one thing alone: God bless our military. I have been blessed to live near a Navy base and, now, an Army base. Many of my friends, neighbors and colleagues over the past five years have been military and their families. It is impossible to describe the sacrifice these men and women make. I get a little choked up each time that I see a bumper sticker that expresses pride in the service of a son, daughter, sister, brother, husband or wife. I am also proud of the members of my family that have served. I love to watch the videos of troops returning home. I cry each time I read about a hero who made the ultimate sacrifice.

This blog tends to get a little political. As such, I often get caught up in the big mess that is one person’s opinion pitted against another’s. Today I want to make it clear that I know that all those arguments are secondary to something much more important.

I know what matters.

The battle going on in the United States, and elsewhere, is about the love of a mother for her children. It’s about the feeling I still get, after 10 years, when I see my husband walk through the front door. It’s about Thanksgiving dinners with kids running around and football playing in the background. It’s about family. Every battle we face as members of this country, every battle our troops fight in other countries, they are all about ensuring our way of life. They are about the freedom to be happy. They are about the sacrifices our ancestors already made.

Thank God for our soldiers. They, so often, sacrifice for themselves the very thing they are fighting for the rest of us to have.