The True Meaning Behind The Military Life

By Deanna Snyder

PSA Student Media

Being a military kid isn’t all it's cracked up to be. People like to judge us for having “special treatment” when they don’t even try to understand what we go through to earn that special treatment. We have to move around so much that we never truly get to call a single place home for more than a year most times. We have to stand by and watch our loved ones get shipped off to some foreign place to fight for our country and try to make this place just a little bit safer for their families. We never get to really understand the term childhood friends because everyone we meet we end up having to leave behind. The fact that we get a house on a safe base, a discount at some restaurants and stores, and pretty good medical care is more than a lot of people have in this world but it isn’t like we never earned it. Going through growing up in a strict home due to living on a military base most or all of our lives, having pressure on yourself because you know you’re living under the same roof as your heroes and want to be able to make them proud, or even feeling alone most nights because there’s not many out there who can truly understand the events you have had to endure and the sacrifices that had to be made because you were born into this life and had no choice in the matter proves that this life is not easy. But, I feel pride every morning when I wake up because I know that my dad is my hero and he and I have sacrificed so much to get to where we are now and nobody can take that away from us because we worked so hard. My dad works so hard for this country and so do so many other people in this world and they deserve more than can be offered. So just make sure when you see a hero, just thank them for their service because just feeling recognized and appreciated for the sacrifices they’ve made is more than enough.