I have chosen to use my 20% of the school year to tell the stories of our fallen soldiers. I have always enjoyed reading about the battles in history class. However when I was younger whenever I saw the casualty count, to me it was like, "Awesome, we only lost 100 to their 300" as if it was only a number. I never looked at that number as people who are no longer breathing because they chose to fight for what they believed in. Too often these sacrifices are just dismissed in our society as meaningless, and people say that they died to fulfill some government agenda. America has lost its sense of patriotism toward our troops. To everyone they used to be heroes, protecting our freedom, and dying for that cause. Soldiers have fallen in priority in society. They have lost all importance in our average lives, maybe it is easy to forget men and women are dying overseas for a cause unknown to most.
"Those who have long enjoyed such freedoms, as we do, forget in time, that men have died to win them" - Theodore RooseveltTo me it doesn't matter what cause they die fighting for, wether it be some government agenda, or fighting for the men next to them. They hung up their lives, in pursuit of a cause they believed in, a cause they trusted enough to offer their life to.
"It is wrong and immoral to praise the dead, rather praise God such men ever lived" -George S. Patton
In honor of their memory, and their sacrifice, I am putting together a website where I will share their stories. I will have a short passage of when and where they fell either in combat or not. This being said, sometimes their is not a lot of information on some of these stories. There were incidents that are more well known like Black Hawk Down, Fallujah, or Baghdad. Then there are incidents were soldiers die without anyone knowing how. I am going to cover back as far as Somalia, and then go through tp the war on Terror.
