Honoring our Veterans by Dominik Stallings

HONOURING OUR VETERANS

Veterans Day was first announced by President Woodrow Wilson to be observed on the 11^th of

November. It was made to honor the soldiers who fought in the 1^st World War, also known as the “Great War”. This is an American holiday and coexists with other holidays known as Armistice Day and Remembrance Day. These holidays were made to mark the ending of the war.

Veterans are people who served in the armed services and are mostly survivors of the World Wars. Today we have many different kinds of veterans. The most common veterans today are Vietnam veterans from 1966 – 1973 and the veterans from the Pakistan and Afghanistan Wars in 2003. But we still have veterans from World War II who are slowly growing old and passing away. I am not sure if there are still veterans alive from the 1^st World War but we are still going to honor them.

I am not sure how Veterans Day is celebrated since it is my first time celebrating it, or remembering to celebrate it. I am sure that it is a great holiday with many great things to do to honor veterans. It is important to honor your veterans; they fought in a war so you and me can live in peace and without tyranny or the threat from living in it. I think we should have more holidays styled like this one since it actually has a important meaning and opens people’s minds, I respect it and think it is a way to be a role model nation, we are going to have an assembly on Nov 7^th at 10:30 A.M on the football field, too. I think it is going to be a good thing we can all remember, a holiday to honor veterans.

By Dominik Stallings