Laveda D. Rockford

  Memorial Day: The Day to Reflect An Opinion Piece Memorial Day is the day when, hopefully, all Americans around the world join together and remember those who sacrificed their lives for our country. There have been many wars, some that we did not want to get involved with and some that we started. The worst ones were the ones that we tried to overtly avoid. Which, I believe, in turn causes us more casualties than if we would have confronted evil when we were told of the evil that was happening. The war that I am referring to is WWII. Many countries were overrun by a horrible dictator who had decided that their race was the only race that should be elitists and by conquering the world, they could instill that type of rhetoric daily and destroy those who they had conquered. We did not want to get into that war, but we were forced to. We did not start that war, but we had to protect our citizens here and abroad. There is always an aggressor in a war. Some countries have been b...