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Veterans Day Research Paper

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Veterans Day Veterans day is one of the greatest holidays of the year. This is the holiday that honors all the brave soldiers who have fallen too give us our freedom. There are many veterans alive and dead who have served our country. There are two veterans that come to mind every time this holiday comes around. Those two veterans are my great grandfather and my grandfather. My great grandfather served in world war 11. My grandfather served as a navy ship captain he was not fighting for our country at the time but still was there and ready too battle at in minutes notice. My great grandfather was just 17 when he went into service. He never signed up for the army he was just thrown into was right out of high-school. My great grandfather's name was Robert Nicols my grandfather's name was Boyd Teeter. My grandfather Boyd signed up for the army and got lucky enough to not half to actually fight. …show more content…

The story that I remember most was when he first got to the war. The drill sergeant asked him if he could shoot a gun and he mistakenly said yes and in the blink of an eye he was in the army. There were 200 fighting men on the front line in world war 11, My great grandfather was one of the 12 men who made it back safely. The reason he made it back safley was because he ran the entire time. He told us after the army he could have ran to texas and back. Their were many terriable storys from the holocaust camps he fought to liberate. He said there were lamp shades made from Jewish womens skin. He also said there were children skinnyer than twigs crying for there mothers who were killed or had abandond them. He said there were dead children in the gas chamber and it smelled awful. There were giant pits of dead bodys which the germans called this area “The Giant Trash Pit”. My great grand father suffered post tramatic stress

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