I was given the privilege to speak to an American army veteran who served twenty-one years in the army, in a Thanksgiving dinner in Nashville, Tennessee. Kelly asked me to tell his story and not appear on camera because he felt it was too much for him to do as for what he had been through. Kelly Rodger, born in Orange County, California, served from twenty-one years old to forty-three before retiring from the army to focus on family life. In his life after graduating high school, he attended the University of Texas A&M and studied nursing and now works in a hospital in Orange County, California.
Kelly was involved directly in the Afghanistan war where he was waiting to be deployed. Kelly was never deployed out into the middle east but told me about some of his close friends that were deployed and some that did not return. While speaking, Kelly was emotional, and the explanation of all this affected him as he was getting older. Questioning what the whole point of war was. Kelly was a firm believer in protecting freedom within the United States but without the notion of any political person becoming a multi-millionaire on using these souls for war. After losing two of his closest friends in the ongoing wars in the middle east, Kelly was unsure of what the entire point of these wars were. Kelly saying these are useless wars that are not doing any good for the United States, rather people are dying and money wasted. Kelly said it is something he may never get over for the rest of his life, after waiting for deployment he questioned if he could have been the soul lost or the idea of why them and not me. Kelly was very thankful for his education received and sees it as a way now to give back and serve his country with his medical credentials in California.
Kelly has one wish that all these wars will end soon that the US government is in transition between presidents. He hopes it will be learned from and should not be revisited and that current solders can come home for good. Kelly believes there is a lot of optimism throughout the country that this will be thing of the past but need to be persistent for this to stay and that the United States do not become involved unless they really need to be.
For S@Y News
Daniel Barone
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