Nigeria, May 14 -- Honoring the brave hearts who sleep in bushes, fight in silence, and sacrifice their lives so we may live in peace.

I watched it.

A video clip from a village, just after a Boko Haram attack on a military base. The camera shook, the dust still fresh. But what shook me the most. was the sound of a soldier crying.

Yes, a soldier. In uniform. In pain. Crying.

Not the cry of fear. Not even the cry of weakness. But the cry of a man who's seen too much. Lost too many. Carried too heavy a burden.

And my heart broke.

That could be someone's father. Someone's brother. Someone's only son.

He didn't cry because he wanted the world to hear-he cried because the silence around him was too loud to bear.

And I felt something dee...