Thanks for Returning

U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet Joseph R. Tomczak recently came back to school for the reasons given below. From Townhall:

"I come back to the academy because during my freshman year of high school I sat in a geometry class and watched 19 terrorists change the course of history live on television."
- "I come back . . . because I don't want the woman I love to be the one who dials her frantic cell phone call while huddled in the back of an airliner with 100 other people seconds away from slamming into the Capitol building."
- "I come back ... because, if called upon, I want to be the pilot who flies halfway around the world with three midair refuelings to send a bomb from 30,000 feet into a basement housing the enemy - through a ventilation shaft 2 feet wide."
- "I come back to the academy because I want to be the commander who saves lives by negotiating with Arab leaders - in their own language."
- "For becoming an officer in today's modern Air Force is so much more than just command; it is being a diplomat, a strategist, a communicator, a moral compass, but always a warrior first."

Thanks, young man, for giving your service and your life for the country!