“Veterans Are Our Heroes” I think Veterans are our heros because... The Veterans said that they would give their lives to defend our country. The Veterans are brave enough to risk their lives to save others. They have worked so hard to save our country and the citizens living in it and this makes them our heroes. Yet still the veterans stay away from their families for so long and come back like nothing even happened, and they never left. They just carry on with their life and family. When the
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According to SOS Children's Villages, over two million children have died while in conflict, about six million have been seriously injured, and more than ten million have been left in severe trauma in the past ten years. These children usually range from ages 14-17, but some have been found to be eight years old. Some kids are forced to fight, being abducted from their community. Others join in conflict, fighting back for what they have lost and hoping that fighting will resolve their issues. Either
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The true concept of a service member is perhaps not equal to the media's adaptation. We watch movies about soldiers, sitting in trenches, gun strapped to their waist and dirt on their face. Or men in service dress sitting in a meeting, with their hand slowly hovering over a button to start a nuclear war. The media presents an artillery of people who look the same, white, male, strong, tall, tough: a soldier. And people who act the same, selfless, fighting for what is right, shooting before thinking
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states that soldiers carry items that have meaningful value to them. Like these soldiers, I also carry items that have some sort of value or are useful in my everyday life. I would carry the most important items to me in my daily life that would help me get through my day. I would carry a 6 lb photo album that would contain pictures of my brothers, my cousins, my parents, my uncles, and my grandparents. These pictures have a significant value to me because they mean the most to me in my daily life
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U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl's recent dishonorable discharge is teaching us all a valuable lesson about loyalty. While lawyers are claiming Bergdahl was mentally unfit for duty and should not have been in Afghanistan, the facts remain true. The young Army Sergeant deserted his post, putting lives at risk and forever ruining his reputation. You might not think this story applies to you, but it applies to us all. In the business world, reputation is absolutely necessary for survival. You can't
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In a chapter Tim O'Brien book, "The Things They Carried", he emphasizes how a war story should not leave the reader uplifted, since all of them are gruesome. Tim tells a story of a man named Bob Kiley losing his best friend, Curt Lemon. The chapter starts off by Bob writing a heartfelt letter to Curt's sister, and not getting a response from "the dumb cooze." Calling her this mean name already shows us how important every small actions means to a solider who has returned from war. Tim then goes into
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In the novel The Things They Carry it talks about all the things a solider has to carry with them whether that be emotionally or physically. Often we fail to realize what soldiers have to go through physically and emotionally, and how that impacts them. Many people fail to realize that war changes a person but I’ve came to realize that after war soldiers have a better understanding of right vs. wrong. Soldiers face life changing experiences that an average human being may never have to face. Right
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Many men and women who serve our country have lost their lives in combat or battling mental disorders caused by deployment overseas. Not only have they lost their lives, they have involuntarily left many loved ones behind. As a cost of serving, many have acquired mental illnesses and are forced to live with appalling memories of their past. Countless service members have been traumatically injured, changing their lives forever. In addition, the U.S. and Iraq war has greatly increased the catastrophic
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A period of chaos hung over America at this time, as WW1 produced a sense of constant fear and chaos. Soldiers were being trained endlessly all over, preparing for the grim war raging in Europe. That fateful morning of July, 1917, on the Yale Campus of Connecticut, the 102nd Infantry were practicing drills, where a small stray mutt wandered aimlessly into their training routine. Corporal Robert Conroy, who was in the infantry at that time, took the small mutt in, leaving pieces of bread and extra
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We received a request from MSRT thru LANT, FORCE COM and CG-721 to expand Advanced Tactical Operator Course (ATOC) from 16 students to 24. As requested SMTC has increased the capacity to train ATOC 24 students throughout FY17. The current ATOC class started with 15 students (2 are from SMTC) enrolled, 3 members have already been disenrolled. (MSRT ME3 that could not complete the physical fitness requirements...sit ups) The problem is not the capacity to tactically train members. A major problem
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