The Importance Of Gifts To America

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There have been many gifts given from America in my generation. The one I cherish the most, is all the sacrifices Americans in the generations before mine have given. I consider them gifts because those sacrifices are what made America what it is today. It all started when the first colonists came over from Great Britain to start the new colonies. They lacked most of the skills needed to even survive in the new world, yet they still wanted to try. The Patriots, in the Revolutionary War, would go on to help make America a free country even though they knew there were costs, such as having to leave their family for a period of time, or simply losing their life. Joseph Plumb Martin is just one to name. He enlisted in the militia, just at fifteen