Boots On The Ground

Do you realize that your perseverance is not about what you accomplish? Seventh-day sunset. During wartime, especially in unfamiliar territory, the infantry would suit up towards the war trenches. Soldiers' boots would be worn for tactical advantage in rough terrain, providing protection, warmth, and good footing among rocky, uncharted grounds. These brave men and women would make their mark in the land left behind them with marching orders from high command. Historic monuments would be made for the visionaries, for the first men to reach a newly claimed land. Through torrential rains, muddy waters, and finally the brutal dry heat that would come, making boot prints in the ground where the armies would tread. These prints would be a guiding support for the next generation to follow. Sometimes they didn't know to what advantage they would move the war front forward, but they knew their job would be important for others to see. And the stories they would leave...