Celebrating Our Veterans Service

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“CELEBRATING OUR VETERANS SERVICE”


“Veterans service.” How do we celebrate our veterans service? Are we to

take a day off of work to celebrate veterans day? I dare say that day has lost

its meaning. Many people use it as a day to do chores or ketch up on sleep.

Never stopping once to think of what the day symbolizes. I say to celebrate

veterans service we need to remember, honor, respect, and stand by those

veterans. Not only veterans of the past but also the solders of today “our

veterans of tomorrow.”


When I think of veterans of the past I think of are great Vietnam vets.

These are the men and women that we still honor today. Sadly though we did

not always honor them. When our solders returned home from Vietnam they

were met by a nation against them. A nation that had no appreciation for

them. This sad but true fact led many good men to drugs, insanity, and even

suicide. Imagine what it must have felt like to have given your life, to have to

watch your best friend die in your arms. Dieing for a cause you both believed

in, yet you returned home to find the people you were fighting for have

disgraced your flag and abandoned your cause. You were spit upon, called a

murderer, and publicly disgraced. Now, we have replaced that disgrace and

abandonment with statues and memorials in their honor. But, can monuments

of stone, and metal displace emotional wounds? Are stone statues capable of

erasing human mistreatment and emotional scaring?


Today we are faced with an entirely different set of problems. We say we

support our troops and veterans “We just don't support the President”. It

would be considered a fauxpas now days to slander our military men and

women during a time of war. So what makes our president, the man we

elected to lead our country and make the decision to fight if needs be, such an

open tar...