The right time to honor American’s veterans is every day. While we do have designated holidays of remembrance, those days are few and far between to honor those who put their life on the line for our country. Those who are truly American and patriotic will honor our veterans every day, as they so reasonably deserve.
Every day, we go to school or work as part of our daily routine, and every night we sleep safely because there are always the men and women who watch and protect us at all time. And at what cost to them? They risk their lives doing their daily routine, whether it be fighting in Iraq, or patrolling the border for illegal immigrants. They voluntarily relinquish years of their lives, years that they’ll never get back, and put off starting a family and getting an education so that they can protect us. And many of them make the ultimate sacrifice, and give their lives to protect us, the people of the United States of America. It takes a special kind of person to willingly give their life for someone who may be a total stranger to them, and yet sometimes, once they are back in civilian life, they are treated with less respect than others because they fought in a war that may have been unpopular.
Veterans do deserve our attention, not only because of their actions and sacrifices, but also because of the high rate at which we are losing veterans. While it may be somber to think of, over 1,000 WWII veterans are dying every day, which equals one veteran every one and half minutes. The amount of knowledge and untold stories we lose as these veterans pass on is staggering and that’s only from WWII veterans. Right now in the U.S. we have veterans from more wars then we have ever had in our history. We have veterans from WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the first Gulf war, and now the Iraq war. With so many veterans in America, now is the time to honor the veterans with the respect that they have earned with the defense of our country for over 200 years.
So when is the right time to honor our veterans? Every day we should think about our veterans and the sacrifices they made to protect our country. They deserve our honor and respect, for we shall always be in debt to the service they have done to make our country one of the greatest and strongest on Earth.
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Greg,
ReplyDeleteThis essay had some awesome points. I can tell you did a lot of research before, and so you had facts in there that I was not aware of.
There were a few sentances that were run-ons, so they were confusing, such as "The amount of knowledge and untold stories we lose as these veterans pass on is staggering and that’s only from WWII veterans." It would have been better if you had either made two sentances, or used a dash construction.
Other than that, the essay made me feel that we did not honor our veterans enough, so your points were made well.