Memorial Day, originally called Decoration Day, is a day set aside for remembrance of those who have died in our nations service. Memorial Day was first proclaimed on 5 May 1868 by General John Logan, in his General order number 11, and was first observed on 30 May 1868; when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers. The South, at first, refused to acknowledge, Memorial Day, honoring their dead on separate days until after WWI. It is now observed in almost every state of the union on the last Monday of every May. Since the Civil War more than 1.1 million veterans, both women and men, have lost their lives in service to America.
Veterans Day is also a day in which not only all living or passed veterans are acknowledged but everyone who fought whether it be during a time of peace or wartime is acknowledged. In the United States, from the years of war till present time today, there are approximately 23.2 million Veterans who have served our country. Veterans Day is important for America to celebrate because it shows the love, compassion, and support we as a country have for our troops. It is a sacrifice that the soldiers out in the battlefield made, and the soldiers who have returned home. The nation's economy and the stability of the nation is all depending on the firefight of the soldiers in the field today.
Inscriptions of names are written of each and every one of those individuals in the order they were taken from us. Honors is given to them. The pledge of allegiance is said and the flag of the United States is raised with a moment of silence Pease to pay respect for those who have lost a relative or friend or love one while in the war. Because for those people who have serve there parts in the army for helping to make the USA a better and safer place for us to live. We celebrate veterans day because, the date November 11 was originally celebrated the anniversary of the end of World War I.
Many Americans visit cemeteries over this holiday in order to offer prayers, respect and honor to the graves of warriors and non-warriors alike. Different ways to honour the dead Americans honour their dead with fine monuments marking their life and impact they had made on the world whereas the ancestors of Native peoples, are frequently not afforded this most basic level of humanity. Their deads often
Kennedy Assassination: how the media covered it then and how they cover it now. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. (9) The death of the president sent our country into mourning. Kennedy's brief, but historical presidency gave a sense of hope and few could accept that he was really gone. The following day newspapers devoted nearly all their coverage to the incident.
The United States of America is well known of their firearms law; thousands of guns are in the hands of civilians, causing an average of 30,000 deaths each year, downscale to an average of 85 deaths a day. With the astronomical amount of death only in the states, are the ones who created those firearms to be blamed on or is it the one taking control of the guns? Instead of blaming on the ones who created things that will cause harm to others, the ultimate ones to be blamed on should be the government, the education faculty, due to two main reasons, one, the government shouldn’t be allowing civilians to have firearms at all, it should be the governments responsibility to protect people, not the civilians themselves, if the government made an assumption that civilians are capable to protect themselves from different situation with firearms, what’s the point of hiring policemen? Secondly, if the government thinks that it’s necessary for people to have firearms for whatever reasons, the government should be responsible for ensuring everyone’s using them in the right way to use them and set up regulations, meanwhile, education faculties should be bringing out the correct concept of firearms, the right way and under what situation they are allowed to use the. Summing up the two reasons above, the blame of consequences should be on the government
And, uh, broke my wrist… “ (Jensen). This shows how soldiers could get injured without even stepping into the battlefield. Although Darrel was never killed in the war, there were still many casualties. The article, “Vietnam War” states, “In 1982 the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Washington, D.C., inscribed with the names of 57,939 members of U.S. armed forces who had died or were missing as a result of the war” (Vietnam War). This fact proves just how many men and women were killed in a result of the war.
Haley Reed Reed 1 English IV Dual Enrollment Ms. Laden March 21, 2012 The Never-Ending War The American Soldier can be anyone: someone’s parent, school teacher, cousin, child, grandchild, best friend, husband, wife, neighbor, co-worker, peer, former class-mate, mentor, fellow church member, or just that nice person that waved on the street. Over the centuries men and women who are somebody’s loved one have risked and often given their lives to protect America and its people. Generally, society tends to forget that every single person that dies in wartime is someone’s hero, someone’s half that makes a whole and someone’s entire world. With the mass amount of causalities from the Afghanistan War, it is not easy to grasp how tragic
At a memorial service Sunday evening, President Obama will join the loved ones of the 12 people killed in a rampage at the Washington Navy Yard in last week. “I'll be meeting in mourning with families in this city who now know the same unspeakable grief of families in Newtown and Aurora and Tucson and Chicago and New Orleans and all across the country, people whose loved ones were torn from them without headlines sometimes or public outcry," Mr. Obama said in a keynote speech to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Saturday night. Obama also acknowledged his failure to get new gun-control legislation passed. “That means we've got to get back up and go back at it, because as long as there are those who fight to make it as easy as
Edward Valiente English 120 Professor Taylor 11/20/11 Gun Control The United States is the leader among nations in deaths caused by firearms. According to the Legal Community Against Violence (LCAV), the “gun epidemic” kills more than 30,000 and causes almost 70,000 injuries each year (para 7). Eventually, this leads to an uprising of gun control advocates, who seek to reduce crime and death rates by setting a variety of gun control legislation among the state and federal levels. Although, anti-gun control advocates believe that heavy restrictions on the access of firearms is unfair to American citizens, and a violation of the 2nd amendment in the U.S. constitution. However, evidence shows that a lower restriction on gun control ensures