What are we fighting for?

[MastanKhan]

@jhungary,

Just for you my man---Chris Rae

On the restless road to nowhere
There's no certain peace it seems
Desire to keep on moving
Till the river of dreams
Is it just because someone told you
Is it just because you found
Old freedom feels uneasy when duty is around

When allegiance asks the questions
Old freedom twists and turns
And chokes on codes of honour
On the sword of no return

And it's the curse of the traveller
The curse of the traveller
Got a hold of me
And it won't let you be

And in sleepless nights
You'll call her name
And feel loneliness cold to the bone
And when the daylight breaks
This old tired heart aches
To be such a long way, such a long way from home

And you long for the harbourlights
But you'll never be free
Of the craving for refuge
And the call of the sea
Always wanting to sell up
But always needing to buy
So till the road leads to somewhere
And that river runs dry

It's the curse of the traveller
Ain't gonna let you be
The curse of the traveller
And it sure got a hold of me

 

[Neptune]

Well said. Just like those hippies we have a lot in this forum. I wish I could say it'd keep these people's mouth off for a while. But it won't. They always won't. Maybe it's because how their community thought them or it's just the way they are.

My reason to to join up (which I left at the end) was, well I don't know how to describe it. I was a little patriot those times but not much to bring me to the ALS Examination (officer cadet selection exam). Maybe it was the conditions at that time. But I think it was more about the military people close to me. It was never about the fancy uniform for sure. My uncle, my elder uncle, my nice... They all were in the service. But my model was my uncle I think. (RIP to him,he was kia in northern iraq). He was a major at special forces. Whenever we've met at family scale, he oftenly argued with my grand parents and sometimes us. The conditions he lived wasn't much good. But whenever I looked at him, he always had that bada.ss smile on his face. One day, I asked him why he was always smiling, damn! he had that smile again. He said, "They (family,friends) can always argue with me, shout at me. I don't care, they got madder when they see I don't. But I just don't. Honestly, I don't know how to describe this feeling. I'll tell you what, come with me tomorrow night."

Till that day, I didn't know that the military people in my family were gathering together almost once a week at one of them's house. That day, my view to life was changed. The way their spending time together was like, life was stopped for them at that moment. It was like they were living their life far different that anyone. I mean, even I can't describe it today. But, I gave a suprising decision to my family. Two months later, I applied to the exam.

Well, unlike jhungary, I don't think that I have much rights to talk about all these. my case was all about a 3,5 years of training, three weeks of active duty at a Kılıç II-class FAC and YTKB-class patrol boat.

What three and a half years thought me can not be described with words. It just changed my entire life.
Even now, the things I challenge everyday, I go beyond them with what I am now. As human, I can forget most important moments of my life when I got older. But I can never forget that part of my life.

Sorry, I went a little off-topic but I wanted to tell that public sees these men only in green and at movies and pc games recently. But there are far different lived things inside the uniform. I'm ending my post with a word of my uncle.

If you have an even little feeling that you belong there, means you belong there at all. And it is your actual place

@jhungary

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