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Voice of the People: Veteran’s Day

As you all should know veteran’s day was yesterday. Veteran’s day is a national holiday that we should remember and revere those who served in the military. I’m not sure if we would have got off of school if it was during the week. There were a lot of war movies on yesterday.

The thing that I noticed about yesterday is that nobody seems to care. Sure it was on television and there was a ceremony in Washington, but pretty much everybody else didn’t care or didn’t know. Shouldn’t a day like Veterans Day be more important? Should America make a bigger deal out of it? After all these are men who risked their lives on the line just so we can do what we want to do. Being the arrogant country that we are we think that nothing could happen to us, but if we didn’t have soldier protecting our liberty that could easily change.

The military doesn’t get the respect that they deserve. How would one of us, a civilian, feel if we went across seas for what seems to be an eternity and come back home and everybody’s so antiwar that they don’t care hat you went through for them. In Vietnam soldiers went in to a new world fighting on a different terrain against people who knew the place like the back of their hands. Imagine you superiors telling you not to make any friends with the soldiers on the sole purpose that they would probably be burned, shot, stabbed, tortured, or fall down on sharpened sticks tipped with poison.

I just don’t want the same thing to happen to our soldiers that are half way across the world fighting because they have to. They are here for our country and do what they are told to. So the next time you get antiwar, blame the administration and try to appreciate the soldiers that are here for you.

By Scotty Baldwin