The United States of America has a very proud history of battles fought and wars waged across the earth. It is a history filled with political power struggles, shows of military dominance, the necessity for action and reaction, and in the grand center of this thing we call war is the epitaph of mankind. As the years have gone by and the younger generations have been ushered into a world of racism, sexism, militarism; one thing has remained throughout the ages that does not change, and that is the fundamental requirement for soldiers with backbones to take a stand when no one else is able. War is constantly adapting its ways of destruction. It is continuously changing so that we could not possibly know what to expect. Yet the fundamental requirement for soldiers still remains. Without them, our …show more content…
Some gave all, but all gave some. They have endured both the physical and the metaphysical scars of warfare, which is something that most could not possibly relate to, save the other veterans themselves. But we have chosen to forget what they have been put through, because the pain of knowing what our loved ones had to witness is too great a burden for some to carry, and so we were forced to inflict the same mistakes made in the past that made it necessary for action and reaction from our soldiers upon the younger generations. This is why we focus on the battlefield as much as we stress on higher education in an attempt to rid ignorance and bring forth some sort of higher enlightenment. Mistakes cannot be repeated. Our country’s veterans cannot be forgotten. If the soldiers of old are locked away in some deep crevice at the back of our mind, the soldiers of today will soon follow them into that dark abyss of our subconscious. Many American peoples tend to lack the cognitive ability to recognize the key points of this essay. Some understand, yet many that do have still fallen prey to the lulling of their