Essay

Patriotism
Does Patriotism still matter? Patriotism does still matters because you have to love your country and not just because you have freedom, also because we have thousands of soldiers fighting for our country as we speak. Although the amount of patriotism has decreased throughout the years it’s still important to love, support and defend your country.
My Grandpa Giordano was in the Vietnam War and he was training when they told him he only had one lung and they had to take him out of the war, but he was in training still. But my Grandpa Boesl was in the Korean War and he was in there for two years. He handed out equipment and he was in the medical field for a little bit of the time. I have asked them before and they said it was kind of fun but It was scary every day. My grandpas are patriotic they celebrate Fourth of July and they both go to schools for Veterans Day, Also they love their country very much. The Korean and Vietnam wars aren’t the only past wars there are also World War 1 and 2, also the civil war. There have been many wars and thousands of people have died over the years but you have to love and defend you country.
The war that has been going on since 2001 is the War in Afghanistan. Hundreds and may be thousands of people have died in that war. It was launched in response to September 11th in 2001, and the war started on October 7th 2001. Before this war there have been seven wars in Afghanistan. I would not want to live there; I would be afraid that another war would break out and kill me. I think war is very important. People don’t respect them as much as they should, they fought for us and they could have died and we should respect those people lots.
I know someone in the Air force as I speak. His name is Mike Igielski; he builds bombs. When he was training he made honors in basic training that means that he did more than he needed to do. And for that he was the element leader for basic training. That means he gets to boss the other people around. Right now he is stationed in Las Vegas. His cousin and his wife are all in the Air Force. The last Igielski that was in the military or Air Force before Mike was also named Mike Igielski. When I heard that I just had to laugh I thought that was so cool.
I hope my speech has changed your mind about Patriotism and how it matters. To firm things up a little bit. Patriotism still matters because you always have to love, defend, and support you country. Like I mentioned before Patriotism has decreased. If you ask anybody they will most likely no at least one person that was in the war. But if you ask someone if they know someone in the past two or three wars I don’t think everyone would. Even though Patriotism has decreased you always should love and support you country when you can. Patriotism is a big part of keeping a country united and I feel U.S.A is United enough even with the decrease in Patriotism.