When he was a kid his father told him stories about World War I and World War II. When you're up in battle you don't have time to mess around, it's the real world and it's a matter of life or death. Us Americans take things for granted and the soldiers allow us to keep our freedom and our liberty. They …show more content…
They’re fighting for what they believe in. They’re fighting for the food on the table for you, your technology, the clothes off your back, those brand new shoes, or that brand new iPod you got for your birthday or Christmas. They’re fighting for that, too. If there were no soldiers to fight for us and give us liberty or freedom, we wouldn't be America. We would be some nation that other countries think that they have the right to take us over and we can't be who we are …show more content…
A missile struck the back end of the helicopter and it went crashing down into the sea of Japan. His father was sent to a hospital in Tokyo, but when he got there he was in critical condition. So Jack and his mom raced to Japan from Ironville, Kentucky as fast as they possible could. When they got there, the doctors had told them that he wasn't going to make it because fragments had ruptured his spleen and he was in full paralysis. His father had died that night telling him the story about what happened and how he was spending the last few hours he had on Earth, but all good things must come to an