Ann Marie Livermore · My Daughter wrote an essay on how veterans past and present are important. Id like to share it with all of you. What does freedom mean? To me, freedom means our unalienable rights, Pride, my choices in education, it means America. If you ask my younger brothers, freedom means family, home, a free country, and being able to ride bikes and go swimming, all thanks to those who have fought for our country. If you ask my Grandmother, whose father and uncles are all veterans of WWII, she will answer, without hesitation, one word. Choice. The ability to voice our opinions on how the Vietnam veterans were horribly mistreated, and how we tried and went through the motions to try and make up for it, but how do you make up for that? According to the dictionary freedom is; the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hinderance, or restraint. However, we did not come by that without a price. So many have lost and risked their lifes to give us Freedom, to give us choice. So I ask you this, what does it mean to you? Without the veterans of the past its safe to assume we wouldnt have the lives we have today. The men that left their families and loved one behind not only to fight for what they believe in, but for our choice. Without our veterans who would fight for us, for our freedom, our choice? It is a great importance to have these men who put their lifes on the line, who put their families and loved ones behind, to protect all of us and our independence. The pain they have endured physically, mentally, and emotionally then, now, and many years after. All for fighting for what they believe is right, and for all of us. These soldiers, these veterans, are sons, daughters, sister, brothers, parents, strangers, however they are also Heroes, who are important for who they are and all they have done, in spite of which war was fought WWI, WWII, Vietnam, Desert Storm, or the ones we are still fighting today, veterans play an important roll in helping us sleep safer at night, the future we choose to pursue, and to be able to have the freedom some only dream of having. Imagine this; your a solider returning home after what has seemed to be a lifetime. The excitement of finally seeing your family and friends once again. To be glad to be coming home, yet saddened by the loss of troop mates and friends not as luck as you returning home. If it was 1945 maybe your the solider who is frozen in time, known all over your country for the famous photograph the kiss. Maybe If it was 2014 your being honored at your hometown high school football game with the entire town there cheering for you. Maybe its 1975, and your fate isnt as honored or pleasant. You walk down the street and protesters glare and call you names. The treatment of Vietnam veterans is often over looked. In my opinion that was wrong and unfair of us as a nation, and why they along with all of our veterans, past and present, influence and are important to out past and future. A very large majority of our veterans did not have to enlist, go through nine months of basic training, and risk their lives, for us, But they did. They suited up day after day for anywhere from six months to two years straight, grabbed their guns and got to work. The days were long, the conditions were tough, but they did it anyways. For their families, for their friends, for you, and I, they did it for freedom. And they did it all, not for recognition, but because as a solider, a veteran, its what they did, or do for our country, and our freedom. We were asked to write about why our Veterans are important to our past and future, how do you do that without mentioning the most importance reason, our freedom? I know why these veterans are so important to me. The way the fight for our country, risk their lives, or even loose their lives for choice. Why they are important? That shouldnt even be a question, It should be the obvious.
Posted on: Thu, 02 Oct 2014 01:53:58 +0000
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