Wounded Warrior Project

The Wounded Warrior Project is to support and provide aid to the veterans wounded in battle. The warriors protecting us go through more hardships than any of us ever will. They at least deserve to have their heroism remembered.

Our warriors are constantly dying and being maimed. Many lose body parts. Others have to endure psychiatric problems from the battles they've been through.

• Yet another example of how great we have it right now. Always remember that there's someone who's gone threw far worse than us.

The military operatives' injuries can actually reverberate into their civilian lives, making them suffer post traumatic stress and breaks down their lives.

• Now, I don't know about you, but if I had the job to give money to get thm therapy, I certainly would donate.

Our warriors go through extensive trials and pain. As they go through them, their families are hurt also. Don't they deserve to at least be commended for it, if not compensated?

Remembering 9/11

Thinking back on that day, ten years ago on September 11th, America still gets melancholy over all of those people that died. Many people lost someone close to them. But the sun still shined after that dark day America still found happiness in people's hearts, especially the children's.

Such harsh feelings are shot at the terrorists. That hatred is more deadly than the missiles the military are hurling into the Middle East. I've actually just let go of that hatred because even though that day was so dark, so history turning, so deadly, so anguishing, so tearing, so heartbreaking, it's not healthy for me to hold dark hatred against anyone, even those who committed this horrendous act.

"Run!": Henry vs. Forest

For those not in my English class, this an analysis for Henry Fleming, the main protagonist in the book Red Badge of Courage, and Forest Gump (yes, the movie!) to draw inferences on what happens in intense situations.

My Inference about Running:

Intense situations causes an instinctual reaction in him/her in order for self-preservation by either fighting or fleeing.

"[Henry] threw down his gun and fled. He ran like a rabbit. He ran like a blind man."

• Henry ran without even thinking. His commanding officer never gave an order for retreat.

In the clip from Forest Gump, Forest wanted to stay and fight when the regiment was attacked.

• The only reason Forest actually ran was because everyone told him to. He was trained to fight when the time came.

Our most basic instincts are to survive and these instincts outweigh everything. People will act in a way they'd never say they will because of that drive they get to survive.