The Arlington Cemetery is a national cemetery located at Virgina. The location was property of George Washington Parke Custis, the adopted son of George Washington. Also, his daughter, Mary Anna Randolph Custis, married General Robert E. Lee and she inherited his property. During the Civil War, the Union confiscated Lee’s estate and used it as a burial ground. After the war, Lee’s son sued the government and the Supreme Court ruled that the government confisticated Lee’s property unlawfully.…
The National September 11 Memorial, or “Reflecting Absence," is a eulogy built in loving memory of the thousands of American lives that were lost on September 11th, 2001 due to a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center near Shanksville, Pa., and at the Pentagon, as well as the six people killed in the World Trade Center bombing in February 1993. The construction of the memorial began on March 2006, and the doors to the memorial opened on September 11th, 2011, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the attack. The memorial is located at the site of the 9/11 tragedy on the former World Trade Center structure and takes up approximately half of the 16-acre ground. What everyone had known as Ground Zero for ten years had finally become an outstanding memorial to honor all the loss and pain endured by the country and its citizens. The design for the memorial was chosen by the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation after carefully reviewing over 5,000 entries that were submitted in a cosmopolitan competition held in 2003.…
War is always a way for men to get what they want or in most cases to settle a disagreement they have with each other. War is never a good thing because many innocent people die at war, they have their own lives and are dragged into fight for something they were originally not a part of. In some cases, however, men are more than glad to go into war and fight for anything, some treat it as an honorable thing to do, while others do it for their pride. The poems Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane and Camouflaging the Chimera by Yusef Komunyakaa are an example of the different points of view of two men who think differently about war.…
General George S Patton It was a tragedy. The losses, the deaths. World War 2 was the great depression. As an American General Douglas Macarthur once said ¨ Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.”…
To fight a good war, they had to work hard and push through hard situations. Men fighting for our country were by far some of the bravest. Soldiers that fight now are still put at a big risk, but they have more protective equipment, better food and a better trauma unit. He also is writing to show that at the beginning everyone wanted to go into the war. However, the idea of war being great wore off quickly.…
The wife of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, Emma Coronel, break the silence to come out publicly in defense of her husband, in an exclusive interview with Telemundo in which she says fear for the life of Guzman Loera and claims that their rights are not respected. Winners in Iowa caucus 23/02/16. Alfredo Beltran Leyva, known as the "Mochomo" pleaded guilty for drug trafficking before a federal judge in Washington D.C., and could receive a life sentence in a maximum security prison. The Justice Attorney Loretta Lynch described the statement as a sign Beltran Leyva working together US and Mexico in the fight against drug trafficking and organized crime.…
For many years people have been creating monuments and memorials around the world. Some symbolize a hero or heroic event and some symbolize a tragedy or the remembrance of someone or something. All are created in a unique way, where the design, the locations, and the structure all have a play in telling the story. The Marine Corps War Memorial, also known as the Iwo Jima Memorial is based upon the exemplary photo taken by Joe Rosenthal. He was at Iwo Jima when the American flag was raised on Mount.…
Often time, wars are believed and seen as a mean to defend the home nation from physical catastrophe of foreign land and soldiers are praised and honored for their sacrifice. Not often enough do the common people take the time to scrape the surface with sayings like “thank you for your time” to look at the understanding that even though a war “makes men” and unites them, Hynes says that it isolates and cuts them off from other people. We are also controlled into believing that we understand exactly how a soldier feels from what the media broadcast to us, and then we take that false understanding and channels it to a way that we think may help soldiers deal with their traumas or past. The truth that the media provide has been filtered out enough…
Douglas MacArthur once said, “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war”. War protects us, our beliefs, and our freedom from those who wish to take is away, but like everything in the world it comes at a price. Men lose their lives or loses good friends on the field of battle and those who come home are never the same. The men who fought in the war are the victims that are most negatively affected by the it.…
There is this story in my family history about my Great Uncle Pete when he was a soldier in the early days of World War II. After his first trip overseas, he met and married a Canadian woman and brought her back to Nebraska to meet his family. Once he was back home in the arms of his mother, father and siblings, he confided to his father and mother that he believed he had made a terrible mistake and was not in love like he thought. My great grandfather came up with an idea to fix the marital mistake.…
Memorial Day is a very important day to me and the United States of America. It's a day to always remember all of the brave people who fought of served for our country. Even though they shedded blood and tears during the war they still keep on going. They saw how some of their friends got shot and unable to do much for them but say ‘’it's okay’’ . The civil war was the cause of Memorial day it was one of the most bloodiest wars ever in history and this war is a blanket of bullets.…
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him,” said G.K. Chesterton. A love for their country is why my veterans serve. It never really sunk into me how much veterans sacrifice for us. I think that we need to show as much respect to people that have served in the military forces to make us be able to be free. Or be able to pursue whatever we would like to.…
Remember Think of it this way; if you were going to fight in the war, leaving your mom and dad in the safety of their home, then you end up standing in the middle of the battlefield. Turning into one of the many dead bodies that are all over the place. Your life flashes before your eyes as you see a fast, terrifying bullet coming right at you, then time stops. And you’re dead as well. Only a day or two passes before your parents get the news that their son/daughter will not be coming home.…
Memorial Day, a day of pain, death, and remembrance for our loved ones. Memorial Day is a day that we get to thank our veterans who are active or even retired. It’s a day that I am glad we have. People, even myself included, can easily forget that we have the right to freedom in this country because of our troops. Troops who risk their lives to save their families and much more from death itself.…
The fourth of July is a very important holiday to my family. Every year we go to my grandmas house, who lives in Ellis. We have been going out there my whole life. Everybody in our family goes and we let friends come if they want. We usually have 45-50 people at the fourth of July.…