What is Strength?

What do you see when you look at our troops? When the majority of the population looks at our troops, they see heroes, people who are willing to die for our freedom. These people are some of the strongest people in the world to us because of everything they do. Not only are the physically strong but they have something else about them. Leaving their families for 6 months to years at a time, it means everything to us (I know it means everything to me). Now flying back into retrospect, in the 12th century the Japanese Samurai Military began to rise and control everything, It was very important for the members in this military to be strong not only mentally and physically like our military but they were also expected to be visually strong. Does that go to say the Samurai was stronger?

When I look at the Samurai, I see the strength automatically. In the way their dressings were and how they were presented. They will layers, upon layers to make themselves look bigger to the enemy, which psychologically would probably make them seem a lot more dangerous to their enemies. Their presentation was very stern, not like the little England people that weren’t allowed to smile but they were very focused, they were very strong in every way.

Comparing the Samurai strength to our American Army strength is in no way different except for the visual strength. We go through basic training, boot camp everything to prepare us for what we have to prepare for in battle. We have to mentally be ready to pick up the phone in the middle of the night and leave for deployment at seven a.m. the next morning. In both of these militaries strength is if not the most important thing, one of the most important things, and that is one thing both of these armies had/have.

I believe that there are many ways you can show strength. In the Samurai, visual strength worked for them just like our mental strength works for us. Our troops have done an extraordinary job throughout the years protecting our freedom, just like the Samurai did in protecting Japan during their reign. In all similarities, no matter how it is shown there is no stronger strength than that to a country then protection and piece of mind.