J. Hector, Veterans Day: Never Forget Their Duty

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"Everything has tended to regenerate; new-laws, new mode of living, new social system" (J. Hector, Pg 32). America has faced many impacts that have changed our ways of life and everyday objects we use, for the better. What is an American by J. Hector, Veterans Day: Never forget their duty by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Statue of Liberty Speech by Franklin D. Roosevelt are all important examples of the similar and different goals/examples of what Americans truly are. The short stories here are all different, just like Americans, but all mean the same thing and share the same ideas. In Veterans Day: Never Forget their Duty, John McCain talks about his imprisonment as a POW in Vietnam and how it was a very harsh lifestyle with few memories of home. The cells were very small and crowded but he was moved to a bigger cell at one point and McCain said, "This was, as you could imagine, a wonderful change" (John McCain, Pg. 6). Obviously going from a small crowded cell to a bigger cell with …show more content…

Franklin Roosevelt's Statue of Liberty speech he says, "Realization that we are all bound together by hope of a common future" (Roosevelt Pg. 10). Americans have one strong aspect that many countries do not, they have high patriotism and pride. Americans can come together to form the strongest bonds of friendship and courage. After an event such as a terrorist attack, American has faced two important moments, shock, then pride. That pride from an event is the American people coming together and rising up, putting all differences aside. "We take satisfaction in the thought that those who have left their native land to join we may still retain here their affection for some things left behind" (Roosevelt Pg. 10). American was founded on immigration and having things for the immigrants to remember what they left behind to form their new life is important to them and the spirit of

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