Victoria DeShazer, 7th-grade student at Troy Junior High, accepts a certificate of excellence and a $50 cash prize from Billie Jo Brue, Troy VFW Auxiliary president, for taking first place in the Courtesy Patriot's Pen Essay Contest. The national contest was sponsored locally by VFW Post No. 5514 with assistance from the Auxiliary. The theme of this year's essay is "When is the right time to honor our military heroes?" DeShazer's essay will be judged on the state l…
December 13, 2009
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Student Essay: When is the Right Time to Honor Our Military Heroes?
When is the right time to honor our military heroes? The answer is all of the time. Every day there is someone (maybe not someone you know) out there defending our country. How do you think it makes those people feel when they get a letter from their family in the mail? Knowing that there is someone out there thinking of them? It doesn’t even have to be from someone they know. When one of our heroes gets a specially made package in the mail from some random person, they know that there are some people out there who spend their day making a letter or package for another hero that they know nothing about.