Fight Tonight

It is crazy to think we have been in Korea for almost 2 years as it feels like arrived only yesterday. Our kids have grown so much. Hazel was 2 years old and now she is turning 4 tomorrow. Zachary was a small baby and is now a rambunctious toddler. Charlotte has matured and thinks she is Korean. Camille has joined our family and Jari has thrived.

Yet we do live in a stalemate of a war. North Korea provokes the international community all the time. From my limited perspective, some South Koreans but few think about the war. Those close to the military know the threat. We own gas masks for all our kids. Most people in America have never even held a gas mask. They are objects seen only in movies when people are launching tear gas.

I own Kevlar. I work in a hospital that has thick steel doors on the outside. 

Yet in spite of this, I don't view Korea for the threat that exists but I see it as home. Loving people.

Because Secretary Mattis has recently highlighted the problem here (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/amp/defense-sec-james-mattis-north-korea-has-got-be-stopped-n740966) Americans are remembering what we do here.

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/win-tonight-men-women-south-korean-base-poised-war-24-n742246

I guess that is the reality of things though- people have short attention spans so they forget easily. We won't though. Two years of memories that will last a lifetime and forever be our own.