Isaiah 6:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. (reminded via the courtesy of our friend Byron LeClerc)

Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn "wouldn't want to leave this Earth any other way than how he did," his wife told CNN, a day after she learned her husband was one of 30 U.S. service members killed in a helicopter crash Saturday in Afghanistan. "He loved his job," Kimberly Vaughn said. "There was no way -- even if you could tell him that this would have happened he would have done it anyway. All those men are like that. They're selfless."

Much is made of the single-day's loss or of the loss of so many "special forces" or SEALS all without an understanding of what has truly been lost. Yes, we lost 30 of the finest that the US military had trained and yes, we lost them in all one day. BUT, what we've truly lost is our ability to put this in perspective. Too many of us have lost the ability to see or care about each family that lost their son, their father or their husband. Too many of us have lost the knowledge that we've suffered worse losses in a single-day many times and that those men and women were lost to their families as well. Too many of us have lost our memory of so many who have sacrificed to make it possible for us to live in freedom and liberty. Too many of us have lost our willingness to offer ourselves up in defense of our country, our national ideals, and our constitutionally expressed freedoms and liberties. We see this in a "church" that abuses the survivors of our defenders. We see this in our representatives who instead represent their own personal interests rather than the well-being of our constitutional republic.
 
Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. Less than 1% of our country steps up to do this for the country. How many step up for God? How many step up for their neighbor?