Kalan Colon

A PARATROOPER ASKS NOT THE NUMBER OF HIS ENEMY...........ONLY THEIR LOCATION! "If you're going to go to war against a major enemy, go; knock the hell out of him fast, and go in there to kill him and get it over with." "War is hell, but actual combat is a motherfucker." - Colonel Dave Hackworth's I was that which others cared not to be. I went where others feared to go. I asked nothing from those who gave nothing. And, reluctantly, accepted the thought of eternal loneliness should I fall. I have seen the face of terror, felt the chill of fear, warmed to the touch of love. I have hoped pained cried. But, foremost, lived in times others would say best forgotten. At the least in later days, I will be able to say with greatest Pride, that I was indeed “A SOLDIER”