First off thank you for your service, it is always an honor to meet a veteran even virtually.

Pure beauty in your words I try ever day to be the man my family raised me to be, honest, caring, full of integrity, and strength. Strength to be that man at my weakest moments, strength to hold myself to my own standards even when everyone else has accepted “good enough”. I fail at times and those failures haunt me, because I know I am better than that. Those failures are the fire to fuel me further, the fuel to guide me along this world fraught with moral quagmires. Your letter steels my resolve and gives me hope. I often muse I was raised for a world long gone in many ways, some say maybe gone forever. There is hope, one day we can resurrect this not antiquated way of thinking and again be a society guided by principles dominated by actions full of kindness, patience, and honor. Many a man or woman may look at our current state of things and say it is hopeless, a pipe dream, a folly, I say its never to late to start.