The best time to honor our veterans is all the time from sporting events to holidays to simply your house. They protected our freedom. We celebrate freedom everyday by just being an American. If we honored our veterans, for example, twice a week, we would be recognizing the men and women who protected us and our rights just a little. What they did was heroic. Not just some little deed to help out with something.
Unfortunately, many of Americas veterans have seen things they or anyone else will never forget. Many have lost friends, siblings, cousins, etc. If we say, “Yay, veterans”, and then be done, they would think that their service and who or what they lost would be meaningless. We cannot find a single way to thank the veterans for their service. Getting them a gift is not enough. They risked their lives to protect their loved ones and their country. No one can repay that favor with a simple token of gratitude.
Some people at home are veterans of loss. Meaning they lost one or more loved ones due to combat. These people may experience the same pain as the veteran of war, just in a different way. When you lose someone, they’re gone forever. You cannot replace them. When you experience this, is there a pain in your heart?
Many veterans will never return home because of MIA, POW camps, and death. If you are a veteran, it means you have had experience with something. In this case, combat. They had experience or else they would be sitting at home, not in the ground. Many veterans are unidentifiable due to burns or explosions. The unknown soldier is the classification for these veterans.
It is sad that there are veterans because it is a sign that humanity can still not settle its differences. There should be no veterans of war. But since there are, we should honor them 24/7. For they made the next step towards peace. Eventually, there will be no wars. Eventually, there will be no more veterans of war. And, eventually, we will not have to honor veterans from new wars.
Monday, 21 December 2009
Circuit Response
It's okay the desire something, but when you make it your entire life, it turns to obssession. Obssession leads to greed, which is the most powerful of negative human emotions. Panchito learns this when he gets the chance to go to school. He loves it so much, that he excludes everything else going on in his life. He's in this dream-come-true fantasy world. When he returns home, from school, to find all the boxes, he is decimated. His heart, shattered. His fantasy world, destroyed.
In life, you need to be aware about things happening on the inside and the outside of your life. The more aware you are, the better chance you can take in the good things, and avoid the harmful things. Basically, planning for your future by using your past. One needs these skills to survive in reality and society. Without them, you are wasting your life. A life without purpose is a life not worth living.
You can have your own little world to retreat to every once in a while when things go wrong. Nobody's perfect. Something bad happens to everyone eventually. While most retreat to it occasionally, others resort to it too often. In some cases, it lands them in an asylum. Their choice on the road of life or their childhood was poor. At first, Panchito was a lowly crop-picker. He was raised with little imagination. It was work, how to survive, and how to make money. He was told to hide when the school bus came around. Then he moves to a new town. He goes to school and loves it, especially when he gets the opportunity to play the trumpet. His imagination starts to grow from the small seed it was. His fatal flaw was that he was so caught up with his life at school, that he doesn't notice signs in his life at home that his family is required to move yet again. Imagination was new to him, and that made him misuse it and it misguided him. He lost sight of the real world and when he returned to it, he was lost, confused, frightened, and dissapointed. Life is a tragedy, and now Panchito knows.
In life, you need to be aware about things happening on the inside and the outside of your life. The more aware you are, the better chance you can take in the good things, and avoid the harmful things. Basically, planning for your future by using your past. One needs these skills to survive in reality and society. Without them, you are wasting your life. A life without purpose is a life not worth living.
You can have your own little world to retreat to every once in a while when things go wrong. Nobody's perfect. Something bad happens to everyone eventually. While most retreat to it occasionally, others resort to it too often. In some cases, it lands them in an asylum. Their choice on the road of life or their childhood was poor. At first, Panchito was a lowly crop-picker. He was raised with little imagination. It was work, how to survive, and how to make money. He was told to hide when the school bus came around. Then he moves to a new town. He goes to school and loves it, especially when he gets the opportunity to play the trumpet. His imagination starts to grow from the small seed it was. His fatal flaw was that he was so caught up with his life at school, that he doesn't notice signs in his life at home that his family is required to move yet again. Imagination was new to him, and that made him misuse it and it misguided him. He lost sight of the real world and when he returned to it, he was lost, confused, frightened, and dissapointed. Life is a tragedy, and now Panchito knows.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn response #2
Money is an adored, hated, and a well known everyday object. It can advance your position in the world, and it can ruin your life. As all know, greed is very powerful. Many times, money inspires the greed. Abraham Lincoln once said, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." What he meant is that anybody can be good, but to test whether he is truly a good person, you must give him power. With power comes great responsibility. All who have power usually have much money at their disposal. Since they have power, they think they can get what they want. If a man uses this power for his own needs, he is not a Truly good man. If he uses it to build a school, hospital, or provide food and other necessities for the needy, he is Truly a good man.
When your the grredy one who uses it for himself, it almost always tears you down. It ruins your life. Some people do not have much if any money at their disposal. They end up despising it for it is a gift and a privilege that they don't have the honor of receiving. They misused it earlier and now they are paying for it. Poverty is a dreaded situation. Everybody goes through hard times, especially the Nolan family, and practically all of the United States during the Great Depression. Like us, the Nolans grew out of it eventually. They saved and saved until something good came out of it. They used it wisely and it brought them up in the world. Not by much, but progress was made.
All of the US was experiencing a hardship during those years.World War 1 didn't help either. It all went down the drain from then on. At the height of the Depression, we were more at the bottom of the pipe than the drain. However, we grew to massive industrial power after the Second World War. The Nolans, provided they stay True, should have the same outcome. Using money, resources, faith, and knowledge wisely will reward them with a bright future. All people go through hard times. In the right sense of mind, the Nolans are in that positin now. Semper fidelis. Always faithful. If the Nolans stay faithful and true to their ways, they'll pull through the hard times.
When your the grredy one who uses it for himself, it almost always tears you down. It ruins your life. Some people do not have much if any money at their disposal. They end up despising it for it is a gift and a privilege that they don't have the honor of receiving. They misused it earlier and now they are paying for it. Poverty is a dreaded situation. Everybody goes through hard times, especially the Nolan family, and practically all of the United States during the Great Depression. Like us, the Nolans grew out of it eventually. They saved and saved until something good came out of it. They used it wisely and it brought them up in the world. Not by much, but progress was made.
All of the US was experiencing a hardship during those years.World War 1 didn't help either. It all went down the drain from then on. At the height of the Depression, we were more at the bottom of the pipe than the drain. However, we grew to massive industrial power after the Second World War. The Nolans, provided they stay True, should have the same outcome. Using money, resources, faith, and knowledge wisely will reward them with a bright future. All people go through hard times. In the right sense of mind, the Nolans are in that positin now. Semper fidelis. Always faithful. If the Nolans stay faithful and true to their ways, they'll pull through the hard times.
A Tree Grows In Brooklyn response #1
Death is a feeling we fear and welcome simultaneously. Those with adoration for life fear it. Those who live a lie or have sinned accept gratefully when death comes to take them home. The meaning of life and why we are born is a mystery that may never be solved. Why did God place us here in the first place? Why are we born if we are to perish regardless of what we do? Even the most advanced philosopher has been unable to answer such a simple yet complex question. There are ceratin moments in his life a man never forgets. Most importantly, what his purpose in life is.
Since God put us here, and for a short time only, we should make the best of it. Find a need in the world and fill it. Get a job, find someone to settle down with. Raising a family is the greatest and most meaningful task one can acomplish. Johnny and Katie have completed it with many hardships along the road. As you age, you succeed in your lifes ambitions. You go to Venice, see a play, visit the Grand Canyon. Francie wants to try every soda flavor just so she can say she has. She wishes she could see the world. When you pass away, your ability to do such tasks leaves you like you left this world for the next.
Death is considered the enemy of everybody. That's not true. Death simply means that your time on Earth has expired. There is no way to renew your subscription to Living on Earth. Some say there is a way to do so, however. Reincarnation is a widely believed phenomenon. Some consider others to be the re-incarnation of ,for example, their great grandfather. Francie may have the thought that Laurie is the newer version of her dad just an entirely different body. The idea of returning to Earth as a new person, with a shiny new mind and memory is just a theory that is most likely never to be proven. Johnny used death as his scapegoat to run from his drinking problem. It worked, but he could've found another solution. The fine thread that somebody hangs on between life and death is thin. Everybody reaches the point where it is cut or it snaps. It will happen, and it will take and give everything.
Since God put us here, and for a short time only, we should make the best of it. Find a need in the world and fill it. Get a job, find someone to settle down with. Raising a family is the greatest and most meaningful task one can acomplish. Johnny and Katie have completed it with many hardships along the road. As you age, you succeed in your lifes ambitions. You go to Venice, see a play, visit the Grand Canyon. Francie wants to try every soda flavor just so she can say she has. She wishes she could see the world. When you pass away, your ability to do such tasks leaves you like you left this world for the next.
Death is considered the enemy of everybody. That's not true. Death simply means that your time on Earth has expired. There is no way to renew your subscription to Living on Earth. Some say there is a way to do so, however. Reincarnation is a widely believed phenomenon. Some consider others to be the re-incarnation of ,for example, their great grandfather. Francie may have the thought that Laurie is the newer version of her dad just an entirely different body. The idea of returning to Earth as a new person, with a shiny new mind and memory is just a theory that is most likely never to be proven. Johnny used death as his scapegoat to run from his drinking problem. It worked, but he could've found another solution. The fine thread that somebody hangs on between life and death is thin. Everybody reaches the point where it is cut or it snaps. It will happen, and it will take and give everything.
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