The holidays my family celebrate

                My family celebrates many holidays. One of them is Christmas. I love to celebrate Christmas because I love to give people gifts. Giving and seeing a smile on people's faces make me so happy. If I didn't get presents, I wouldn't care because Christmas is supposed to about love. My mom is always the first one awake. She wakes up at 4 a.m, but I wake up around 8 a.m. I think she gets more excited then I do!


               Another holiday we celebrate is Thanksgiving. Before we moved, we would have all of my dad's side of the family come over. Ever since I moved, It has just been my mom, dad, brother, and me. It has been a little boring but it's better than having no family at all. We usually play cards and watch football. We don't have a specific team that we watch, but we just like to spend as much time together as we can.



             

One more holiday my family celebrates is New Years Eve. My family and I go to a hotel  with my best friend from my old school. The hotel is really nice, and once we get settled in, we go out to eat. We usually go to a pizza place, then after we play cards and games. My friend and I go swimming and then we open Christmas presents since we can't be with each other for Christmas. Our families have lots of fun and we love to do this every year.

My emoji story

There was a man named Frank. He loved nothing more than his horses. He rode his horses everywhere. Frank was the only person that owned a horse in town. There was one time where he went to the store, and they let him take his horse in. Sadly, the store got burnt to the ground do to a robbery. There was a horse track at the scene and horse hair on the side walk. The police thought of who it could be but they just couldn't think. Frank saw the fire in the news paper and knew what he had to do. He got rid of his horses, took his fence down, and got a bike. He did that in the span of 2 days. As the police thought about it, they went to his house knowing it was him that burnt down the store. When the police showed up, they all they saw was a bike. They didn't even question him but walked off and went to look for people that owned horses, and they never found out who did it in the END!

Veterans Day

                When I was eight, I saw a commercial for Casey’s Pizza where a young boy bought a pizza for a solider who just came home from war and had no where to go. This image has stayed with me because I thought that everyone had a home. As I became older, I realized that a lot of veterans struggle, and that’s why we need to honor them every day…not just one day out of the year.

Did you know that veterans make up more than 12% of homeless? Many vets come home from war without any money, food, water, or home to go to. After what they do for us, they should get better treatment than that. Veterans do many things for us, such as they put their lives on the line, so we can live a free life. If we didn’t have vets, then we would not have the things we have today. You would not have the freedom to go to school or walk around town with your friends.  I’m not saying that all people treat veterans with no respect, because there is something called the honor flight.

What is the honor flight?  In 2005 Earl Morse, a physician assistant and a retired air force captain thought that veterans didn’t get enough recognition, so he decided that he wanted to pay his respect in some type of way. He then realized that most of the world war II members could not travel to Washington DC to see their memorial. So he called in 300 private pilots to see if they would take the veterans to the memorial. He thought that this is a respectful way to say thank you to all of the veterans and many of the vets that went of this flight have enjoyed it. The honor flight is a non-profit organization that transports U.S veterans to go visit memorials with no cost from the vets. There are 6 airplanes from Springfield that go out to each state at least three times a year and picks up Veterans. Earl takes the veterans out to lunch and then takes them to Washington to see memorials to honor the U.S vets that                                                                                                       have fought in the respective wars.

These are many reasons why you should always honor a veteran all the time and not just one day of the year, so thank a veteran the next time you see one and be thankful for everything they do for you.