Since the Covid outbreak, I have not been in the airports, so I do not encounter those veterans returning from battle. I do occasionally encounter one wearing a cap telling where they served.
If we could see their uniforms with those medals of Honor or ribbons, they tell you a lot about the soldier - where they served and what combat they were in. I have asked soldiers what the different medals and insignias represented, and many times they were for great heroic deeds performed in combat.
This week, we will celebrate Veterans Day to honor and pay tribute to those that fought and died in battle for our country and our freedoms. May we remember and hold them in great honor. Some walk with a limp, others may be missing limbs, others in wheelchairs, and others may be horribly disfigured or physically impaired because of war wounds.
I am reminded of someone else who was in a great battle many years ago. His battle field was a wooden cross on a hill where He suffered and died all alone. He has scars on His hands and feet where they drove the nails, and a deep scar in His side where they drove the spear, (John 19:34, 20:27).
It was Jesus Christ who was victorious and provided the one and only way our sins could be forgiven, (John 8:36, 10:10 1 Peter 2:24), See you in Church next Sunday.