My Responsibility To America
It’s September 14th, 2018, my 18th birthday. It’s a rainy day, as I walk up the stairs from my room I think to myself, “Wow! Im legally an adult, I can now buy a gun, I can have my truck title in my name!” Then it hits me, “I can finally enlist for the Marine Corps.” I’ve waited for this day since I was 13. I’ve never told any family members about it because they would never let me. After school as I drive to Alex to the recruitment offices I get a phone call from my mom “Jack what the hell do you think you're doing?” (one of my friends must have told her because they think i am crazy doing it) I tell her “mom it's my responsibility to protect my country and defend all its people you can’t talk me out of it, I love you.” and I hang up the phone. It's going to be a rough dinner.
Ever since I was 10 or so I have been thinking about joining the military it was when I was 13 I choose the Marines. I choose the Marines because everyone in my family has been in every branch but the Marines. I think joining the military of any branch is …show more content…
To be an informed voter and know the candidates that are running for office is a big responsibility. Not knowing who you are voting for is like flipping a coin, heads America wins tails it doesn't. Another responsibility I will have is knowing the constitution, respecting and defending it. The constitution is under fire everyday with all the different riots and innocents are killed everyday in America, it is no better time to show we are still strong and stop all of the protests and
It’s September 14th, 2018, my 18th birthday. It’s a rainy day, as I walk up the stairs from my room I think to myself, “Wow! Im legally an adult, I can now buy a gun, I can have my truck title in my name!” Then it hits me, “I can finally enlist for the Marine Corps.” I’ve waited for this day since I was 13. I’ve never told any family members about it because they would never let me. After school as I drive to Alex to the recruitment offices I get a phone call from my mom “Jack what the hell do you think you're doing?” (one of my friends must have told her because they think i am crazy doing it) I tell her “mom it's my responsibility to protect my country and defend all its people you can’t talk me out of it, I love you.” and I hang up the phone. It's going to be a rough dinner.
Ever since I was 10 or so I have been thinking about joining the military it was when I was 13 I choose the Marines. I choose the Marines because everyone in my family has been in every branch but the Marines. I think joining the military of any branch is …show more content…
To be an informed voter and know the candidates that are running for office is a big responsibility. Not knowing who you are voting for is like flipping a coin, heads America wins tails it doesn't. Another responsibility I will have is knowing the constitution, respecting and defending it. The constitution is under fire everyday with all the different riots and innocents are killed everyday in America, it is no better time to show we are still strong and stop all of the protests and