Futures Past

October 18, 2007

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Sitting in an Observation Post near the Landing Zone always reminds me of home. The trees, standing tall and strong almost look like the ones back on Earth if I let myself look at them long enough.

Of course I'm not supposed to be thinking of how I used to take long walks and look at the trees, I'm supposed to be keeping an eye out for Bane forces on the move.

It's almost funny really, me fighting in a war. I had never even fired a weapon before arriving at the AFS training camp and had a pistol shoved into my hands. And now here I am, sitting with a rifle that fires bolts of electricity, a shotgun type laser, beacons to mark targets for carpet bombing, and body armor to make me harder to see..... and I only understand any of this stuff enough to use it. Funny, in a slightly horrible way.

A lot of soldiers in my unit tell me it's dangerous to think about the past, and what we've lost. That it's better to focus on the present, so we'll have a future.

But I know, at least for me.... thinking of the past gives me the heart and courage to face the present.... to fight for that future.

~ Alysianna