Derick Sebastian's Blog

Aloha All!

I am currently on Oahu doing several business meetings with Joe Souza, who the luthier of my AWESOME ukulele and owner of Kanilea Ukulele. It is great to be here and to be working with such an awesome team!

Anyhow, I had a super early flight out of Maui heading into Honolulu and as I arrived, coming out of the jetway, I saw literally hundreds US Military Soldiers in the boarding area. I honestly don’t know if there were coming or going; some looked happy, some looked sad, some looked as if there were lost, but most of them looked VERY tired. Almost 80% of these Soldiers that I saw were sleeping. Most were slouching in theirs seats, and some were even lying flat on the ground just dead tired sleeping!

For me, it was a real eye opener. I honestly got really emotional because these Soldiers are fighting for ‘us’ citizens the United States of America! And here were are as ‘civilians’ just walking right by these soldiers like they don’t even exist. I was very saddened but yet very honored that these soldiers sacrifice so much for us.

In closing, I have to admit, I may think that life for me approaches really hard and it really sucks for me to be away from my family while traveling but you know what, most of us including me, need to shut our mouthes because we can complain all we want about this and that, but truthfully, we need to stop, take a step back and realize what these US Military Soldiers are going through. They are not only away from their families, but they are SACRIFICING THEIR TIME AND LIVES for us American People. I am not trying to be political here, I just want to express how grateful and how much I appreciated the US Military Soldiers on what they do for me. So here is to the MILITARY SOLDIERS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA…Big Mahalos, Alohas and GOD BLESS AND “SHAKA” TO YOU ALL!