By: Krysten G. Navy Veteran Griffin Kirsch Did you know the Navy is the only branch where you get to pick your job and what you want to do for that branch? Also there are sometimes in the Navy where it takes about 4 months or even more to get to where they needed to be in order to fight. I did not know a lot of those facts until I decided to interview my cousin‚ Griffin. He has recently just stopped serving in the military because he never gets to see his family
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In the early stages of the Vietnam Veteran Memorial people used verbal and racist attacks directed towards Maya Lin because of the fact that she was an Asian American building a memorial in remembrance of a war that took place in Asia. Ross Perot had pledged 160‚000 dollars to help run the competition withdrew his support and called it a “trench”. Numerous veteran groups also showed their disapproval some said it lacked heroic or patriotic symbols. Other veteran groups said that it should rise above
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The Growing Social Problems Facing our U.S. Veterans Today There are numerous social problems that plague our world today. These issues can be very detrimental to our society as a whole and can also have very negative impacts on many lives. One major social problem we are facing today is the way we are dealing with and handling our United States Veterans. Despite the fact that we are one of the world’s most powerful nations we are failing to properly take care of our service members who put
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Military Veteran’s Foundation was developed for employees to participate in a single campaign in order for future success of the Military Veterans Foundation. Fundraising efforts are normally conducted in for those employees that wish to donate to the foundation. The San Antonio Military Veteran’s Foundation’s goal is to raise funds to benefit the active military‚ veterans and their families that have served overseas in Vietnam‚ WWII‚ Desert Storm‚ Operation Iraqi Freedom/ Operation Enduring Freedom and
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Veterans Day occurs on November 11 every year in the United States In 1954‚ President Dwight D. Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day.In 1968‚ the Uniform Holidays Bill was passed by Congress‚ which moved the celebration of Veterans Day to the fourth Monday in October. The law went into effect in 1971‚ but in 1975 President Gerald Ford returned Veterans Day to November 11‚ due to the important historical significance of the date.Great Britain‚ France
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me‚ (Tanabe). Veterans people who risk their lives for people they don’t even now. Usually when we see a veteran we thank them for their service. These Americans Veterans risk their lives and it’s a natural instinct to say thank you‚ but to some it’s no problems‚ and when someone says thank you to a vet they are reminding them of the good and bad times when they served. Walking up to a veteran and saying thankyou is a natural instinct‚ but is it no problem to the veterans you say it to
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A veteran to me i savery brave person th at sev ered in the military. I have a few veterans in my family‚ My dad my uncle and more. he 2017 National Veterans Day Poster Contest is complete! Each year the Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) National wVeterans outreach Office‚ in conjunction with the Veterans Day National Committee‚ publishes a commemorative Veterans Day poster. The poster is selected from artwork submitted by artists nationwide and is distributed to vA
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Cultural Shifts on “The Returning” A.K.A “Kembali” Bayu Baharul Islam “The Returning” is a play written by Fredrik Brattberg and had been translated into two languages; English and Indonesian. It was performed and adapted into Indonesian “Kembali” on October 2013 in IFI Bandung‚ directed by Sahlan Bahuy. “Kembali” is a tragic comedy which is tells a story of parents who lost their only son without knowing whether the son is dead or still alive. Though they presumed that their son is dead‚ they’re
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Michael Adams Social studies 7th hour 10/15/2012 Thankful for my soldiers I am thankful for our soldiers giving us justice‚ thankful for them making us feel safe in our country‚ for giving us freedom of speech and more. This is what I appreciate from our soldiers. First of all I am thankful to our soldiers for giving us justice‚ if we didn’t have justice we would be pushed around‚ and other countries could just barge in and take us and everything we own away and make us their slaves .If we
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Veterans Day was originally called Armistice Day after an armistice was signed to temporarily seize fighting during World War I on the eleventh hour‚ of the eleventh day‚ of the eleventh month in 1918. November 11th was officially designated a federal holiday in 1938‚ and in 1954‚ after World War II and the Korean War‚ it was renamed Veterans Day to honor those who have served in all wars. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day. Memorial Day honors those who died while serving‚ whereas
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