POTENTIAL

By Laura Louden

As I look around my class I realize that the people I surround myself with have more potential to be great than many millions of other people throughout the world.  This potential is not necessarily due to superior intellect or outstanding strength and athletic ability, but because we are all under the wing of the richest and most powerful nation in the world, the United States of America.

It is for these people, my friends sitting in the classroom and all the other Americans, that we should protect and support our country, just as it protects and supports us.  One way we, myself and all other Americans, can do this is by serving in a branch of the military.  Every nation is always in need of people who are willing to fight for the good of that country and all the people in it; this includes the United States of America.

The reason our nation is as it is today is because brave men and women fought and even gave their lives for it.  For us to keep the United States at its current state of greatness, we need to put out the same courageous efforts that the people who came before us did.  They fought for the future of the country, for people in my generation to be as we are now, so we should step-up and do the same thing for the future Americans who are not yet born.

It is for these reasons I believe that people should try to join a branch of the military and help fight for our country so it remains the richest and most powerful in the world.  This way, in the future, children can sit in their classrooms, just as I am now, and think about how great it is to live in the best nation in the world, the United States of America.