APPRECIATING THE VETERANS OF WWII

By Cristina Hanson

My name is Cristina Hanson and I feel that it is important to honor veterans.  I feel we should appreciate our veterans because they have done a lot for my generation and my parents'.  If not for the veterans of World War II, then we probably would be leading a very different life right now.  If those men and women had not fought so hard for their country, then we might have lost the war.  That would have dramatically changed everyone's life and my life would probably not be the same as it is right now.  It took a lot of courage for men and women to sign up for the military and put their lives at risk for all the generations to come.  As for the people who were drafted, they did a very brave thing by going to the war instead of trying to avoid the draft. 

I believe that all veterans, men and women, should be recognized and appreciated for all the hard work they put in for their country.  I feel that all the people of the generations after them owe a part of their life to the people who fought in the war because without them our lives would be very different from what we know them to be today.  All veterans deserve to be recognized and appreciated; but, in my opinion, the soldiers that gave their lives for our country - so that people like me could live a better life - deserve the highest amount of respect.