Many People Are In Pain

Today was the first day of my course in: "Bachelor Of Social Science (Counselling) in the city, which I am very excited to be doing. Once I graduate, I want to specialise in "Grief & Trauma Counselling".
As we have all seen here in Victoria, from the recent devastating bushfires, there are many people in pain.
But also many other people are in pain from other horrific events.
On my way home on the train, I met a lovely man, who has recently returned from fighting in Iraq. I felt such sympathy, admiration, compassion, and empathy for him. This poor man is now totally devastated & guttered, after everything he has seen, and had to do over there
(Including having to kill 2 men)!!!!!! His life as he once knew it, is now no longer.
He has been placed on a "Army & Centrelink Pension" for the rest of his life, he desperately wants to be the way he once was, but after an experience like that, is it ever possible?
What does "WAR" ever achieve?
Other than too many people being killed, and never coming home to their loved ones. And for the others who (Are lucky to come home alive) are never the same again!!!!!!
These wonderful men & women who put their lives on the line for others, deserve our utmost gratitude and appreciation, and I will always be "THANKFUL" to them all.
So next time when you see someone in uniform, either the emergency services or the defence forces, please thank them for what they do for us, because they are never often enough by us in the community, being thanked or acknowledged for the sacrifices they make.
"SO TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE WEARING A UNIFORM, I SAY THANK YOU," and leave you with a quote of hope:
"There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones."