Honoring Our Veterans

Fires begin surrounding, friends lie dead next to you, you look down noticing that only one leg remains. You’re gasping for air, the smoke is thickening, and soon everything around you goes black. Then, awakening in the loud sounds of a helicopter, cruising through the air with people struggling to help save your life. Sadly, this man did not make it. People constantly sacrifice their lives for you every day. Some soldiers survive but end up handicapped for the rest of their life. So when is the right time to honor them? All the time.
Life is short; soldiers are willing to make their lives even shorter so that all of our country can live a more peaceful life. The attitude of how they live involves making life valuable and worth living. Your respect for veterans should be so high because they were willing to die for your protection and they were blessed enough to come back to America alive. All soldiers and veterans have bravery which is such a difficult trait to obtain. “Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.” — G.K. Chesterton.
Too many people in our country take things for granted like having a house to live in and having food to eat. Most people spend over three hours each day in front of a computer or a television screen. That is the exact definition of laziness. People need to realize that others are dying for them while they sit there and watch television. Every day you should realize what others do for you, even those that you don’t know. Respect veteran’s courage and take time in your day to appreciate the peaceful life you have, because it goes without saying that if you think your life is hard, a veteran’s life was so much harder. “The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.” — Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit.