Veterans Day Essay

Veterans Day Essay

            Veterans need to be honored every day because of all the hardships they have faced to help us have a free country.

To me, I think that honoring veterans every day is so important.

P.1       Honoring Veterans is important because without them we would not have the freedoms we have now. Whenever I watch war movies on TV, I try to think that I am in the movie, but when I really think about Veterans, I could be on the front lines helping these brave men fight for our country. When we had a guest speaker come to talk about when he served, one of the quotes that I remembered was, “Mothers, Sisters, Fathers, Brothers, and Grandparents can go to sleep at night without worrying.”  The reason his words stick with me is because it describes how much veterans care about protecting us as individuals.

P.2       It is key to remember that Veterans are all around us: neighbors, grandparents, and even teachers.  Just think of all the privileges we get to enjoy daily as a result of their service.  It can be easy to overlook things like freedom of speech and religion and go on with the day to day.  Without people willing to protect these freedoms, we could be persecuted for our beliefs like so many were in WWII.  16 million brave men fought in that war that didn’t know whether or not they would make it back home to their families.

P.3       During the draft, men didn’t have an option. They were forced out of the safety of their daily lives and thrown into battle, The hopes, dreams, and lives they were building in America were put on hold in order to defend not only our people but others in foreign countries who were being killed unjustly. These veterans brought home with them the weight of the war. They lost friends, took lives, and came home and integrated back into our society. Where they no longer thought they belonged. As in the case of the Vietnam vets, they came back to many who treated them in a bad way. 

Closing P: Hearing the stories of the veterans impacts me because of the heroic actions. These men came from regular homes like yours and mine. They were tested by the unimaginable, and they continued to fight for our beliefs always trying to do what was right. For that, they deserve honor and remembrance for that.