Throwing Images into Time and Eventually, Space

           I have been often tossed into the salads of other people's impressions of what our freedom was defined as, and the most peculiar of those forums continues to revolve around what the veterans or military role is when the bugle sounds out the revelry of congruence in our many faceted lifestyles.
    I don't mean to be facetious or belittling when saying that most of these conjectures come out in the essence of if not for them I would not have the freedom to choose my fates, or represent those individual foundations of my intellectual curiosities or mindsets.
    I exist not only in my own property values when it comes to mental pursuits, but also rely, as a citizen of the United States of America, on those intuitive and extrapolated ideals written down in the Declaration of Independence, The Bill of Rights and the Constitution involving things like freedom of speech and religion and other non-violent interpretations of somewhat clear minded and forward looking thinkers, who took upon themselves to set down on paper those ideas and concepts they thought would evolve over the years to keep up with the changing technological and financial situations being faced by future participants of this glorious lifestyle and representative form of government called Democracy.
      Now in past years when World Wars interrupted our skill sets, we had military drafts, but now we rely on individuals to join for various reasons, one of which I feel is based on the unemployment and financial difficulties we now find ourselves in.  Whoever you think is running this country, it doesn't matter to me what they do or think, or what they think I should do.  I will do what I want to do, and I will suffer whatever is my fate in doing so.  I do not in anyway look to the military, with their images of destruction or killing as a way out of our intellectual or economic illness. It is our check and balance system, with mental, emotional, physical and spiritual health that makes us successful.  If we tip the scales to one side or another, as you can so easily see, we are no longer healthy as a nation, but on a global scale we also suffer the same illness when competition, jealousy and lack of education puts us on so many wrong tracks. Just let me say, I don't look at any one side of the fence or any greener grass on the other side being either a solution or a cause for the calamities we face.  Also, the military is not the way to achieve a balanced inner peace of my mind.  That is making a short story, way too long, and though I am not remorseful in so doing, these few lines are just the beginning of my story and I am sticking to it.