Why You Need To Care About Ukraine

Pay close attention to this situation.

Remember how everyone thought that marching into Iraq would be no big deal? That turned out to be a great mistake. Let’s not repeat it, although this situation can in no way compare.

Russia isn’t Iraq. Russia has nuclear weapons and a maniacal lunatic pulling all the levers of power available to him. And they are considerable, Russia being ranked the second most powerful military machine in the world, behind only the United States.

It’s difficult for most Americans to comprehend the material damage and human suffering a military force the size of Russia’s is capable of inflicting. Neither do most Americans alive today understand the fear that was instilled in young children growing up in America in the 1960s. Drills were held regularly in my elementary school. We were made to hide under our desks in the event we were subjected to a nuclear attack at the hands of the Soviet Union. As if a child-size desk would protect us from nuclear bombs.

We were terrified of Russia. I, for one, have never forgotten how frightened I was, expecting to be bombed at any time. I didn’t understand exactly what this meant, but I did understand it was serious due to the fearful looks I observed adults exchanging whenever this subject came up.

I, as well as most of my classmates, friends, and cousins, was the child of a WWII veteran. Drafted as a teenager in college, my father and all of his brothers were drafted, oldest to youngest into the war to end all wars. Too bad that didn’t come to be.

It took me until I was a young adult to begin to comprehend the toll WWII had taken on my father and uncles. Even when I began to figure this out, I could never completely comprehend it. One thing that was clear, only those who witnessed the carnage and destruction truly could.

Just as I can’t understand exactly what it was like for the hundreds of Marines I’ve met since I…

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