By David Wrolson
What happens to your soul when you are born to be a soldier, but you don't answer the calling?
Writing this at age 52, one of the great mysteries of my life is why I never became a soldier. It was all I ever really wanted to do, really ever. And part of my life seems wrong because of it. I was not true to myself during those crucial enlistment years.
One of my few memories of kindergarten is looking at a picture in a book of President Lincoln flanked by 2 soldiers. A female classmate that was looking at the book said "David (that's me)wants to be a soldier." Had I made it that obvious to my peers at that young age?
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