I live in America. I remember being yanked out of school one day, with a vague explanation from a friend that we were at war. I remember watching the news seeing the Twin Towers fall down over and over again with millions of replays. I remember watching our president, George Bush, being shoved into an area of choices no one wants to make. I remember hearing millions say how they hated George Bush and list everything he did wrong. We tend to forget the things he did right. How many other attacks have been stopped by our troops and our president's decisons?

But I'm not here to write about President Bush. I'm here to write about our troops. I'm here, so we can honor our troops. They deserve it. They risk their lives everyday so that we may live free and comfortably. They do so much for us over here, it seems we sometimes forget about it. Yes, we put magnetic ribbons on our cars and set up signs, there's nothing wrong with that. But there is more we can do.

Let's all take a moment of silence, a moment to just sit and ponder the risks and trials the go through. When wepause, let us remember who they are doing this for. We honor them with things all the time, but I ask, can we honor them in our hearts?

If any of you reading this have served in the military, whether in Iraq or not, my hat is off to you. May I be one of the many that say "Thank you." As I said earlier, you deserve it.

O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight
O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave

God Bless America! And God Bless our Troops!