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Throughout history from time to time, our country has gone to war; they called upon our brave young men to enlist and join the corps. Some of the men were called by draft; while some enlisted on their own. They displayed their courage, in either case, and made their presence known. With the colonists discontent in ‘75 the American Revolution began; the brave young men fought the British for the right to claim their land. Over restricted trade rights in 1812, we went to war with Britain once again; with much of the war, against their strong navy, fought on the bounding main. The Spanish American War began in 1898 with the sinking of the Maine The American victory gave Cuba its freedom from the mighty Empire of Spain. Teddy Roosevelt and his brave Rough Riders charged up Kettle Hill; The battle cries of the brave young men surely gave the Spaniards a chill. The sinking of the Lusitania in 1917 brought us into World War I, and the presence of our brave young men was felt before the war was done. Our troops with “Black Jack” Pershing at the helm, into the war were lead, and soon the German army knew, on the Americans they would not tread. With Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in December of ‘41, Uncle Sam once again called its young men to gather and take up their guns. From the sands of Iwo Jima to the beaches of Normandy, they banded together and fought with great valor and won their victory. Vietnam was a different kind of war, fought by the boomer generation; And when the war was done the men came home facing an ungrateful nation. They had banded together and bravely fought and 58,000 died, and the brave men came home to an unruly mob, a nation with no pride. If there a common thread in all of our wars, it’s the bravery of our young men; they answered the call to take up arms time and time again. They distinguished themselves as they fought with valor, many of them died, and in our country we have lived in peace and that cannot be denied. And to the brave men who gave their lives, we will be eternally indebted. We will never forget what they did for us, their memories forever respected. The bible passage from the Book of John, brings us to this end; “Greater love has no man than this: to lay down one's life for one's friends.”
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