We had an assignment asked of our students to write an essay answering the question “Are You Proud of Your Country?” sponsored by the VFW.
It broke my heart how many of my students asked me “Do we have to write about America?”
Yes dammit! You DO have to write about America! You live here, don’t you? Why are you living in this country, using up our aide and putting us further in debt if you aren’t proud of it? I just want to yell at these kids to move out of the country if that’s the case. I know that sounds really harsh and mean, but come on! Really? It just breaks my heart how much these kids take for granted.
I know there are faults with this country, I know that, I’m not going to be naïve about that topic, but having to read essays that explain how our military is a joke, the people in it our brainwashed and how there are so many things wrong with what we are doing here in the United States gets my blood boiling.
My brother is in the military. He is not deployed to a foreign country for no reason. He is not separated from his family, his children, because he is brainwashed and worthless. I’m sorry, but he is helping to keep his family, and YOUR family safe. Just because these kids are not on the front lines, experiencing the horrors that so many of the men and women who are serving our country see and living every day, they fail to see the value and sacrifice being made.
I know most of what was written was a reflection of what these kids hear from their parents, because what 8th grader would write about the jobs bill/act and actually know what it meant, but it still made me sick to read so many UnAmerican essays, that I wanted to just throw them all in the trash.
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