LOVE AND DEVOTION

By Hailey Shoemaker

The veterans of the United States should be greatly appreciated for their love and devotion to our country.  When our country was in need of help, our veterans donated their time and courage to serve us.  Our veterans have much love toward the United States to fight against all odds and get all of us through the hard times.

During all the wars the United States has fought, we would have never gotten through them without our veterans fighting every minute of every hour of every day to help us succeed.  When I think of all the hardships our country has gone through and all the times our veterans had to fight, there is no possible way that we could thank them enough.  Without our veterans, a lot of things would have never happened and the results would be very different.

Veterans are sometimes taken for granted by people around my age.  I feel that sometimes we don't understand the importance of our veterans because we have never had to go through a great war.  We've never had to see our classmates shipped off to war thinking that we may never see them again.  We've never had to endure those hard, hurtful times and I think this is one major reason why younger people don't understand the importance of veterans.

I feel very thankful to know I live in a country where people will devote their love and courage to fight for us and for freedom.  Without veterans, the United States would be in a great world of hurt.  We need to let our veterans know more than once a year how much they mean to us and how greatly they are appreciated.