Veterans Day Reminds Us Real Heroes Wear Combat Uniforms and Keep the USA Free

Veterans Day Reminds Us Real Heroes Wear Combat Uniforms and Keep the USA Free

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – NOVEMBER 11: Military, police, firefighters and others march in the annual Veterans Day Parade on November 11, 2022 in New York City. Despite the rain, hundreds of people lined 5th Avenue to watch the biggest Veterans Day parade in the United States. This years event included veterans, active soldiers and dozens of school groups participating in the parade which honors the men and women who have served and sacrificed for the country.(Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

by AWR Hawkins

In a superficial world where pro athletes and Hollywood actors are sometimes considered heroes, Veterans Day exists to remind us that real heroes wore combat uniforms and kept the USA free.

Veterans are rightly praised for their service as they are the ones who literally put their lives on the line for this nation. Among them are combat veterans who said goodbye to their families for deployments — sometimes numerous deployments — and who fought against barbaric fascists in World II, were often overlooked for holding the ground in Korean, crawled under live fire in Vietnam jungles while dodging Viet Cong attacks, and lived and breathed in the intensely dangerous environment of IEDs and suicide bombers in Afghanistan and Iraq.

They came home yet still paid a price that civilians complaining about the minutia of everyday life cannot comprehend. Read the rest at Breitbart.com.

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