Veterans Day

Her father was a American Revolutionary War veteran and a very wealthy merchant. After the deaths of Colonel Tompkins and her sisters, Sally and her remaining family members left Poplar Grove and moved to Norfolk, VA. Even though Sally had a rough childhood she loved helping people. She helped others by nursing

Maj. Chris Faris talked about was the affect that war had on his and his daughter’s relationship. The talk he had with his daughter allowed him to see the pain and hurt that comes from him being away at performing his military duty. His daughter, now 118 years old, reminded him of the last time he was home for her birthday, which at that time she was 10 years old. Each time he was only home for 2 months at a time; this made it difficult for him to have a positive relationship with his wife and children.

The book Comfort by Joyce Moyer Hostetter is the sequel to the book Blue, where 13 year old Ann Fay catches polio after her dad goes off to fight in World War 2. Her little brother also catches polio, but that is fatal. She goes to a hospital, in Hickory, North Carolina, and meets Imogene, a African American girl with polio too. Imogene helps Ann Fay get through the pain, and they become good friends. Comfort picks up right where Blue left off, where Ann Fay is home from the hospital and Ann Fay’s daddy is home from the war.

Something that is interesting is, when Vietnamese people came to the U.S to become citizens they were determined to learn some even made it to the top of the class. There also something upsetting things from the effect of the vietnam war. One is Most homeless people over 50 are Vietnam veterans because they couldn 't bring their mind back after experiencing what they saw and what they did. To follow up on that Mr.Horn had a friend who was in Vietnam with him, he 's also a very talented runner who participated in the boston marathon. He was 100 yards away when the bomb went off.

After losing the women in his life that make him happy, Scrooge becomes depressed and lonely. Scrooge begins his childhood without a mother figure because she died shortly after he was born. His mom was the first of three women that Scrooge lives the rest of his life without. Without a mom around, his father tends to treat him terribly. Scrooge’s father believes that he is the reason that his mom died.

Even though Amelia was reluctantly that her husband wills leave home for the war but he has no choice and he has to do so for the war. During the war, he was getting to know that his wife was giving birth on baby in these few days. Unfortunately, he has serious injured during the war and unable to go back home to take care of his wife. Therefore, he wrote a letter to the doctor and asked him to help his wife delivered the baby yet the doctor replied him that the situation in the town was in the bad condition as there were many victims that attacked by the Yankees. The doctor was trying his best to rescue all of the victims as he can.

I believe they are inadequate parents. My opinion is based on everything, Jeannette had experienced in her early years as a child, and as a teen growing up in Welch. The first reason why I think Rex and Rose Mary Walls are inadequate parents, is the skedaddle. The skedaddle is something that Rex and Rose Mary Walls used as an excuse to escape the “FBI” and debt collectors (and they had a large sum of debt).

On the contrary, the other Wes Moore’s mother Mary acted quite differently towards Wes’s absent

Jericka’s adoptive family, Heather and Jason, reported that there was about three months of a honey moon period where they did not see any acting out behaviors. After the three months, the parents reported that Jericka would scream at the top of her lungs for about three hours at a time. The family reports that they believe this was from over stimulation, too much excitement as well as a lack of structure. The parents report that if Jericka would have trouble sleeping the night before then she would also cry a lot the next day. The family indicated that they had to decrease the number of social activities due to the over stimulation.

This was due to his advancing years as being a monarch. The play states, “Give me the map there.  Know that we have divided In three our kingdom; and ’tis our fast intent… Since now we will divest us, both of rule, Interest of territory, cares of state—  Which of you shall we say doth love us most?” (Shakespeare 1.1.36-50).

First, Hansberry uses Mama to show the negative outcome when Mama 's dream of getting a house was cast aside. Mama 's dream was to move out of her tired old apartment of about 45 years into a better neighborhood. Hansberry uses the line “ Or does it explode?” (Hughes 11).

Her mother also goes on to abuse Precious about how she is ‘stupid’ and ‘dumb’ and that there is

The grandson in “Black Mountain, 1977”, mother was an alcoholic and his parents fought all the time, his grandfather had retired the year his grandson graduated from high school. His grandfather asked him if he wanted to help his fix up a house and with everything going on with his family, he went there with his grandparents. During that summer he grew and knew with everything happening with his family he would be ok. The young girl in the beginning of “Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience” had a different experience in growing up. She had a bad experience with the hospital that she birthed her son and did not want that to happen again and she says, “I wanted something different for my life, for my son, and for my daughter, who later was born in a university hospital in Albuquerque (Harjo, 1991).”

Thank you for putting your life out there for us. Thank you for protecting people's families. And thank you for putting this country first. Veterans day is for people like you to be thanked for all you guys did for this country. But people like you deserve more.

Patriotism is the dedication; loyalty; devotion; respect; faithful etc. Being a patriot means do whatever it takes to honor your country. In the essay, Veterans Day: Never Forget Their Duty, Mike Christian was a POW, captured by the Vietnam. As stated in the text, he sewed an American flag so him and the other POW’s that were captured could say the pledge of allegiance. He knew he’d get in lots of trouble if he would get caught.