The Unit

Recently I began watching a show called The Unit. The show is no longer on the air, but I'm hoping it gets picked up again. Over the last 5 days I watched the entire 4th season (which is the last season.) This show is like a drug, its addicting to me, mainly because it hits really close to home. There's to sides to the show, the men in the Unit, and there wives and children whom they constantly leave at home so they can defend their great country. The wives use Military lingo, and have even been trained by their husbands to adapt and over come as if they were soldiers themselves. Sometimes being an Army wife is just as hard, if not harder then being the soldier. On the other hand, speaking for most of the Army men at some point or another we have offered the women we love a way out, and warned them what the life of an Army wife would be like. Soo they pretty much knew what they were getting into. As a soldier if you have a strong support system at home, and a beautiful woman to go home to you can focus on the mission and stay strong for your country... because " a distracted soldier, is a dead soldier."

I love the following quote, everyone should read this at some point in their lives, not only read it but comprehend it.


"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, And whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag." - Father Dennis Edward O'Brian, USMC