Right Now - Meagan Hale

Right now there is a soldier clutching a torn, dirty picture of his wife and baby. The earth is quaking around his from explosions and ears are ringing.
Right now there is a soldier dragging his fatally wounded brother in arms out of way of gunfire, the same friend he went to first grade with.
Right ow there is a soldier looking through his scope at a boy way too young to know what he is doing, much too young to see war.
Right now there is a soldier taking a bullet for his friend to make sure his friend makes it home to his family.
Right now there is a soldier asking the man beside him to tell his mother thank you for everything in case he doesn't make it.
Right now there is a soldier somewhere where no one will ever find him again, never see him again.
Right now there is a soldier crying in pain, making every noise except the words to give up the location of his men.
Right now there is a soldier shaking from fear because he knew war was awful but he never expected this.
Right now there is a soldier camouflaged behind enemy lines afraid to breathe too hard.
Right now there is a soldier listening to his daughter tell him about losing her first tooth on the phone thousands of miles away.
Right now there's a soldier riding a chopper into the ground.
Right now there is a soldier trying to learn how to walk with his two new prosthetic legs.
Right now there is a soldier diving on a grenade to save his brothers, no matter the cost.
Right now there is a teenager complaining that their iPhone battery dies too quickly.