Promt 106: What would you do with three wishes?

The first thing that I would do with three wishes is to wish for more wishes. Everyone who has ever been asked this question always stated that this is what they would do with their first wish.  If it doesn't work, then you still have two wishes left to go, and if it does work, well then you have a lot more wishes. 

In all seriousness, if I had three wishes in which I can have anything that I desired, my first wish would be a cure for all known diseases in the world.  I have known and seen too many people suffer from chronic illness, or pass away from a disease like cancer. This would be the first thing I would wish for because having to see loved ones suffer in that way is becoming too much to bare nowadays.  People should have the opportunity to live a long and full life without having to worry about possibly contracting a fatal disease.  The biggest factor about this is the children.  I see too often in the news children born chronically ill and end up losing the fight for their life shortly after being born into this world.

The second thing I would wish for is for all of the wounds that our soldiers have suffered during this war to be healed.  A member of my family was just recently wounded fighting for our country in Afghanistan.  Although he lost both of his legs, he is still keeping a strong and positive outlook on life and is doing just as good as ever.  I would wish this for our service men and women because for all that they do, they do not deserve to have these serious injuries completely change their lives.

Finally the third thing that I would wish for is to be wealthy.  I know this may sound greedy, but I think that this is one thing that everyone would wish for as well.  The wish itself sounds like I am focusing soley on me, but I would use the money for lots of things.  I would pay of all the bills and home of my parents, which is something I always told them I would do if I ever came into money.  I would also donate it to several police and fire departments becuase I have seen several with not a lot of new equipment and I want to aid them in receiving the best that they can get.

Unfortunately due to technical problems, I am unable to upload the picture from my camera to my blog, but by describing what is inside the frame, hopefully you will be able to know what it looks like anyway. For my object, I used my camoflauge bandana. Overlapping layers of different colors make the mind wonder which color is actually on top. The mixture of the multitude of dark colors, black, green, brown, and light brown all blend together to fool the naked eye. The colors are arranged into different pattern styles to help confuse the eye even more.

"Vietnam Reflections" painted by Lee Teter.

The setting of the artwork is at the Vietnam Memorial.  It shows an older man with his hand pressed onto the Memorial wall and with his head down appears to be crying or in a state of great sadness and grief.  On the other side it shows the spirit of several soldiers possibly who died in combat reaching out from the wall and touching the hand of the man on the other side in what looks to be an attempt to console his grief.  It is unknown whether or not the man was a vietnam veteran or if he is the relative of someone who had been killed in action during the war and this is his relative, possibly his father or brother reaching out.

The direct touching of the hand with the soldiers reflection could dictate that the man and the soldier are the same person and the others around him could be the brothers in arms that he had served with that possibly were killed in action.  This is honestly one of the most powerful painting I have ever seen.  I remember seeing this painting at a store when I was younger and still remember it to this day.  Every time I look at it, I am waiting for the man in the picture to just look up and see the faces in the wall looking back at him.  While the mystery of who the man is will remain a mystery the main focus I think the artist was trying to make was that in times of war, it really is about the man next to you, and how people you may have never met before become your brothers-in-arms and will always be with you no matter what.

About Me.

Hello to everyone.  My name is Daniel. I am 25 years old, and I live in the Tunkhannock area in a small town called Factoryville (although the entire time I have lived there I have not seen any factories).  I moved to Factoryville with my family in 2005.  Before that I lived in a small town in New Jersey for the first 19 years of my life.  Moving was hard at first because I had to leave all of my friends behind.  Shortly after moving out here I obtained a part-time and eventual full-time position at Wegman's in Dickson City.  While I was working there I began to realize that I was unhappy and I asked "what do I want to do with my life?"  After thinking about it I enrolled into the police academy at Lackawanna College.  After graduating the academy in January of 2008, finding a job was not as easy as I thought it would be.  I finally obtained a part-time job in February of 2009.  I obtained a second part-time position in 2010. I still work both police departments in Lackawanna County. 

The reason I decided to enroll back into Lackawanna College is because the only way to advance in the field of law enforcement is to have a degree.  My short-term goals right now is to finish the spring semester at Lackawanna and then transfer to Keystone College and obtain my bachelor's degree in criminal justice.  My long-term goal is to one day be employed by either the Drug Enforcement Administration, or the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms.

I love to stay active and do things to stay in shape.  As a police officer, physical fitness could mean the difference between life and death.  I go to the gym and run almost everyday.  In my spare time I like riding my motorcycle, or just playing around in the backyard with my siberian husky.