Song: Some gave all
By: Billy Ray Cyrus
Start song at (1)
Suggested by Randomly Talented.
This chapter will be emotional! I want to take a moment and say thank you to all of our veterans, past, present, and future! Thank you for your serves, your sacrifice, your bravery and your courage! You are appreciated and treasured heroes!
Jack and the veterans were asked a lot of questions. They used kind voices and answered as many questions as they could. They did their best to explain the difficulties of war and how/why they were fought without pointing fingers are letting anger, sadness, bitterness, or any other harsh emotions scare or confuse the kids. It wasn't easy to do!
Jack told of how the fight with pitch was a battle over belief. A battle between fear and the important parts of childhood!
When the two were explained it was easy to see, in some places, where the 2 wars were different. And at the same time it was very difficult to see a difference. The older ones took this information, many nodding along, using it to help make sense of their own feelings about the subject. "So you've all been in a war?" Max asked gently, almost and unsure whisper.
"Yes." Was the solemn but sincere answer.
Jack thought for a minute. "I a few stories that I can tell."
"We all do, I'm sure." One uncle said.
"That sounds like a good idea." Great grandpa decided.
Jack sat on the floor, his staff across his legs. (1) "I once knew a man named Sandy Kane. He preferred to keep to himself but if someone asked him to tell them his story to tell them. Usually his eyes would be full of tears as he described his friends and explained the ones he lost. He always spoke about the things they fought and all gave some of what they had, and others gave all, to protect."
As Jack told about the stories he'd heard from Sandy Kane he had the rapt attention of all of the Bennett's, even the mothers who were watching the little ones. The story was solemn, made you think. All the veterans could be called the good friends they had lost. And how they felt honored to fight beside them!