The Influence Of Serving My Community: Marquis De Lafayette

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I serve my community in many ways. From volunteer work to giving food to a homeless man on the side of the street. I try to help as many people as I can. My mission in life is to make a difference through the people that I connect with. I don’t want to be one of those people that do so many amazing things in life, but get no recognition. They don’t get remembered for all the stuff they did in life. I wish to be remembered unlike people like Marquis de Lafayette.
Marquis de Lafayette is one of my heros, yet if I would ask the common American they won’t even have a clue to who he is. He was a huge part of the American Revolution. Lafayette taught George Washington how to fight. He even has his own room in George Washington’s house and still nobody

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