As a Russian war veteran get’s his first glimpse of the tank he once fought in the emotions start to flood in, He walks over to the once old and crippled but now restored tank and his heart collapses as he kneels beside it.
He starts to remember the memories of horror and fear as well as some triumphant ones.
He comes to one of his memories and his words begin to stutter and tear dropped slowly trickle down his cheek,
The emotions inside him were all bottled up together and now he lets them out all at once.
He still feels the terror and fear that an enemy soldier may sneak-up behind them and try to destroy their tank or worse… DESTROY THEM!!!
But that is all behind them now they don’t have to worry anymore, he is safe.
He has served his country and made it out alive,
Many soldiers have died from this war,all just because of certain people being greedy and selfish, WE are truly lucky to not have war like this, but this does not mean that we can do anything we want and take advantage of things, we should be thankful for the life we have,
This truly was an emotional moment, for a soldier and his tank have finally been re-united!
For their service we are forever in debt,lest we forget!
A poignant reflection Joel and an excellent emotive description of the soldier's experience. Ka pai.
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