Sunday, February 15, 2009

How should we honor our fallen soldiers?

This week i read an article from Newsweek Magazine about how we should honor our fallen soldiers when bringing them back to the U.S. We send our soldiers home to a base called Dover, and then the soldiers are carried away in herses with very little recognition by anyone other than close family. Canadians are flown to Trenton air base, and are then driven 107 miles to the mortuary in Toronto. The highway traveled is known as the Highway of Heros and all other traffic is stopped by police, firemen and flashing lights as they wait for the fallen soldiers to pass. I think this is a very honorable thing to do to recognize the fallen soldiers, and I think the U.S. should do something like this to honor our fallen soldiers. I think we honor our soldiers respectively but I think what this author was trying to say was, we only hear about the fallen soldier but we never really honor what they did for us. Driving them on a highway not only shows respect but people actually get to see the fallen soldiers and hopefully realize how much they mean to us, to have died fighting for our country.

3 comments:

  1. thats moving it really is i do agree that this country needs to do more for our fallen soldiers i feel passionatley about this considering i have 2 best friends that are in the service and a great uncle who is stationed in iraq and god for bid if anything would happen to any of them i would make sure they were recognized for what they did for our country.

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  2. I agree completely! I think the United States should do a little bit more to give credit to what these brave men and women did not only for this country, but for every individual person and family they have never met. I believe they deserve more. Good point, Nik.

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  3. In fact, our new president reversed the ruling so that news media and cameras can cover the caskets returning but only if the families give their permission.
    The best way to honor them is to bring the living home, too.
    Good work, Nikki.
    Kay

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