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The first step is putting yourself out there. There are many fears in life and this the biggest for the veteran community. We are not understood and we do not know what it to become of us after military service. Find people who will tell you YES! I will tell you Yes. I will also tell you HOW! How is a more power they WHY. We ask Why so many times and never asking how. Echoing a Message of Hope is different for everyone. Find out what speaks or what really grabs you. For me and right now its Healthcare for Veterans. Special Message for the NFL!

This is glue that holds are dreams together in humanity. We need to explain things to each other in order to understand and process things. As human we need process things in a linear format or straight line. This action leads to this action and this action is what has happened. We view our history not in angles but in views of our lives from our perspective We think our lives are correct and if everything is correct why do i need to connect with others? Does that make us double correct or double vision? Or two different views of the same issue.

There is a connection between your health and hope. Those in constant poor health see so many immovable obstacles. If the people could change they would never get sick or have poor health. Veteran are no different. We have health issues related to military service or the result of military service. These health issues give us a different perspective on life. Health is affect by stress and negativity. The stress we hold on a day to day basis does a number on our immune system . The lack of sunlight and low Vitamin D will affect the immune system. A positive outlook even in a hospital bed does have an impact on the future. If people do not think their health is not connected they need a 2nd opinion. Hope is a path not a destination we appreciate life more because of these moments.

Every and idea has to come from the space between our ears. In the Beginning is a metaphor every thing we come up with. There has to be a beginning and middle, however things may never come to an end. Echoing a message of is a path not a destination and we can reference points along the way to remind us how our time is valued.

Life has many twists and turns.The Whens and Hows bring optimism for the future. We continue on these paths because that society expects us to do or be. As veterans we have expectations on ourselves that may or may not be fair. Fair or not it the way things turned out. We pray that we are on the right path. The truth is the right path in made of parts of your life and history only knows if we did it. The wrong paths are obvious and people still go on wrong path for various reasons including obligations and family. The intent is noble but ultimately we fail because we know it the wrong path.

I support veterans 100% in everything they do and believe. Going to church or being apart of organized faiths is positive step in a veterans life. There are many aspects of faith and fellowship is one of them. You are never alone Literally! There will always be some to talk with and grow with. I personally believe have faith and do not belong to any faith or religious organization. I salute anybody veteran or non veteran who wants to serve something bigger than themselves.

For every path there is another not taken. For veterans we see paths for others and we join others on their paths. Veterans and people in general have to make tough choices and more often then not they are making choices by themselves. In the military the dots are easy and mapped out. Life is does not have many dots and no ones life is mapped out. There are many noble endeavors that do not make people happy or even make them feel as if they are on the right path. This is another level or barrier to what really means to find your own purpose.

The world is a mess right now and everyone has an opinion about everything except what is best for veterans. Veteran any pay is better than veterans on no path. When we are no path we loose purpose. It hard to rationalize the bad things that happen right in our own neighborhoods. There is so many causes to pick from and you have to find the right moves for you.

Every we stop to remember those who are no longer with us. Those killed in combat, accidents, training, and yes suicides. People often confuse the Veterans Day and Memorial Day. When somebody says thank for your service, just humbly smile and say thank you. You never know when we make the passing to the next world ,Godspeed!

The things we do not finish in our life time do not pass away with us. Time is the same for all us. It's what we do with that time makes us different. We spend our time and regret some of the choices we have made in life. Do not wait until the end to start something or finish something. Unfinished things we need to say our parents or friends need to be said quickly and we need to move on. If we wait then our lives will become stuck on the things I should have said when you loved me.

Hope is a path not a destination. We ask if only we had things our lives would be better. After we get these things our lives are not better and often worse. The paths we are on are not perfect and needs to be improved. Veterans can treat each other better. We treat others as we treat ourselves. Veterans can get back to the right path. The path that leads together will be right one.

Echoing a Message of Hope! Can we really market hope? I don't think we can market hope, but we market fellowship. Fellowships are what keep us going on and on. We go on for each other, We go on for family. Hope is not a destination its a path. Find change on your own path and then our paths will cross one day to make change for others,

Echoing a Message of Hope! Missing the obvious are you? The answer has been in front of you the whole time. We can't see the obvious because we have so many things going on in our lives. What is important now and then will be not so important in days gone bye.

Echoing A Message of Hope! People pass away in many ways and they leave us. We feel that they have unfinished lives, There is pain when we loose the people that have changed our lives. Our lives are better for knowing and caring about them. Life is a gift to be shared. We veterans may never understand why loose people we care about, we must never stop caring and sharing life with others.

Echoing A Message of Hope! People feel that their lives are sidetracked by the events in our lives. These events shape our lives and redirect them in probabilities never known before. The best plans are often changed and changed again. Getting sidetracked and distracted are two things that veterans should be used to. Life is a rearranged by the events our past and we can't see the future if we stuck in the past.

The Morning After! The dawn after the night is symbolizes that you made it and that there is another challenge on the horizon. The Morning after is not exception. We fight wars both literal and figurative. The times between the wars are moments of calm before the next storm. The will storm will come. The hammer will fall or we are weighting for the next shoe to fall. We just can not get past the storms to the morning after.

Echoing a Message of Hope! Safety and Security are two words that veteran find at home. The world is scary. Fear and Anxiety keep us from our full potential. The potential of being a part of something larger than ourselves. Our home is where we feel the most safe and secure. What happens when our world contracts so much it squeezes us out of our own life. We feel better when we are safe and secure. The first step over threshold is a huge step in to life.

Echoing a Message of Hope! Hope has many synonyms. Words that mean the same or similar in what Hope really means to us. The Veteran community shares every last synonym on the list. Like The Thesaurus we too have many feeling of hope and what is hopeful. Hope is not a destination. We daydream of a better tomorrow and how better yestersday was. As Veterans we believe in each other and the right path of hope is with each other, Not over each other!

What is Real? Echoing a Message of Hope! People are real, Things are real, money is real, Pain is real, Hope is real, to others those things are not so real. When start to loose things, we try to make it seem not so real. IT is self preservation mechanism in all of us. Not every thing in combat is real and not everything in life is not so real. There are real barriers in echoing the message of hope such health and education. Try to better than yesterday and tomorrow will be better. Military service has defined our life thus far, it only a small part of our path of hope.

Getting Connected & Echoing a Message of Hope! People have to get connected with the man or woman in the mirror. There are no external forces that will change who you are. Get connected with person inside and almost anything is possible. You have a pulse and that's a great start. In the military we are taught to disconnect ourselves from the problems feelings and people to handle stress, I wish the military would teach us how to reconnect with ourselves.