The soldiers helped us gain the freedom we have today and I greatly appreciate the hard work and dedication the soldiers gave us. They fight to give us the rights we have and the way we live. We wouldn’t be the same without the soldiers who fought for us. We should greatly appreciate the things soldiers do for us and what we can and can’t do because it is keeping us safe in our country. Soldiers risk their lives everyday to give us freedom and rights that other countries don’t get the chance to have.
Many of my family members have fought for our rights. My great-grandpa even fought in World War ll and received a purple heart; which is when you get injured in battle. He worked through his injuries to help out our country. Not only the veterans in the past help our country, new veterans like my uncles have fought in recent problems : Afghanistan and Iraq. Without the new and the old veterans, we wouldn’t have been here at school having an education.
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We don’t give enough respect to the veterans, especially kids. The women in today’s United States can vote and do almost everything a man can do, but in other countries, we aren’t even allowed to go to school or vote for what we think is right. We just kind of blow it off like it was nothing, we need to sit back and actually notice what they did and are still doing for us. Kids and even adults don’t think much of this topic until it’s a problem, they wouldn’t get to go to school/work, they might not have the rights to pick a job they wanted and just had to take what was given to