Service
Harold Stewart: Well, service to me is, in so many words, whether it’s going to be on the local level or community, it’s giving back: giving back to your community, giving back to the United States as a whole, just giving your time.
Patricia Smith: I mean, you’re representing your country, the freedoms that we enjoy on a daily basis. It’s thanks to these men and women.
Mario Vega: These guys are the ones that are keeping us safe, you know. The whole continental United States, it’s relying on them, so I’m very proud of him.
Hugo De Leon: Just being in the United States — and I tell this to my kids all the time — I’m richer than three-quarters of the world, just with my freedom, and I’ve always taught my kids that the United States, it’s phenomenal, it’s the best, and to serve for this country is an honor. I have the utmost respect for anybody that served, any veterans, anybody that’s currently serving, and if anybody approached me with any negativity about my kids serving in the Military I’ll stand up for my kids, you know. No problem. You know, there’s just — there’s no better place to live, and they’re defending it. I’m proud of that, very proud.
Barbara Heinz: There were some people that seemed to be kind of — I don’t know if “concerned” is the word, but they wanted to know why the boys felt they needed to go into a wartime Military, and I told them that it was the support that they have for their country and for the love of their country that they wanted to go, you know, to feel like they were doing something. It’s a great way to build discipline and to show support for your country. They are literally defending and protecting us.
Dawn Woodings: It gives you a sense of pride that I am doing something that — his term was “I know that my family and my friends are sleeping safe tonight.”
Mario Vega: Walking with him when I pick him up from the airport, it’s — it makes you feel good because, you know, you see the respect people give him, and even at the restaurant, you know, when we got him yesterday, and so that makes you feel proud.
Betty Simmons: They have so many people just, you know, thanking them for something that, you know, they think of as an everyday, you know — they’re just serving and doing what their country needs them to do at the moment.
Jayne White: I go out of my way to hug people, to thank people, to promote anything I can for the Services.
Nancy Kennon: I feel like serving your country means that you’re going to be out there protecting the citizens of the United States, and, as Julia put it, that there’s a real reason why she’s in there. It’s because she’s protecting the country. So, to me, to have people like Julia out there, I feel safe knowing that they’re there and they know what they know.
Patti Kolk: It just makes me really proud, too, that I’m a Military parent and I’m an Air Force Reserve parent.
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