Supporting Our Troops: We're Behind Them No Matter What

nited States military is the strongest and mostfighting in that war.
disciplined military in the world. The troops in the U.S.One thing in our history that I am very ashamed of is
military have fought and died for many of thethe fact that when the troops from Vietnam
freedoms that we enjoy today. Without our troopsreturned to America people did not show their
we would not have independence at all, becauseappreciation. In fact many people actually taunted the
they rose up against the tyrannical reign of the Britishtroops and made them feel bad for fighting in the
government to fight for our freedom.war. We should not have done this, because the
As the United States became a super power the U.S.troops did not have a choice whether to fight in the
military has also waged many wars in defense of ourwar or not. Many of the troops were drafted and if
nation as well as other nations that could not defendthey did not fight they would have been put in jail.
themselves. I do not believe that war should beWe should have given the soldiers a parade and
glorified, but I do believe that sometimes war ischeered for them when they returned.
necessary. Also since our country is the mostWe are currently in a very unpopular war in Iraq. At
powerful country in the world, I believe that wethe beginning of this war, the American people were
should look out for the “little guy”,behind the war, because we thought it was a good
and defend smaller nations that can not adequatelystart in the war on terrorism. However the
defend themselves. No matter if you believe in a warusefulness of this war has far been surpassed by the
or not you should always support the troops that areamount of American lives that have been lost. Many
fighting in the war for us.people in America believe that we should end this
Some wars that America has fought in have notwar and bring our troops back, because we are
been very popular wars, but we should never losenever going to be able to gain a complete win. I am
sight of our troops that are fighting in that war.actually starting to believe that we should bring our
Vietnam was one of the bloodiest wars that wesoldiers back now as well. However no matter what
have ever been apart of. Also it was a veryhappens with this war or the decisions our
unpopular war in the U.S., with millions of peoplegovernment makes, we need to make sure that we
protesting daily. The wonderful thing about America isshow our troops the support that they deserve
that we have the freedom to protest a war.while they are fighting and when they return.
However we must not forget the troops that are