The Medal of Honor

It was a regular day of school; I was in my 4th period. At room 476 waiting for my instructor to come in. Minutes passed and he told us that he had to change all the topics that we were going to learn, because we sophomores were going to be in charge of an important project. We were going to write about the Congressional Medal of Honor. I didn’t know what he was talking about until when he started explaining that it was a medal for recipients that do something really extraordinary and they get awarded by what they did. After seeing a video of the MOH to me it means sacrifice, it takes for that person to be brave, and modesty.
For me the MOH means sacrifice. When you sacrifice, it means that you don’t care about anything; you put your life in extreme danger. You don’t care about what will happen to you. You’re taking a big risk by helping others. You put others before you. You have the ability to do things that are really difficult to do, that not everybody will do.
For me it takes bravery to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. The person that is really brave feels responsible for others. They don’t care what they will have to pass through, they just do it. He or she is risking its life, or in other words they have the courage to do it. They don’t think about leaving their families they just don’t think about anything else, they just take action.
Modesty is the meaning behind the statement “Sometimes I think it was easier winning the CMH than it is to wear it” The person that received that medal may feel uncomfortable because of what people think. Probably they think he just did that (took the action) just to receive that medal. Probably people will want to expect for him to do the same thing again and be a hero for ever. That was probably 1 day risk. When that is not really true, because he wasn’t thinking about that he was modest.
The Congressional Medal of Honor is a great award to recognize a brave and modest person, who really deserves it. It takes a lot of sacrifice to get this, the people that have this medal are more than being the president of the Unites States of America.

December 4, 2008

Dear Specialist 5th class Clarence Sasser,



Hi my name is Kimberly Gonzalez. I am a high School student (cadet) from Farragut Career Academy at Chicago Illinois; Farragut has a JROTC program which is the best… (General Patton Academy). I am a Sergeant. I'm writing this letter as recognition of your bravery for what you did. I was really amazed. Now I know why they gave you the Medal of Honor, you really deserved it.
You really sacrificed your life and your time for being at that war. You saved many lives and secured the safety of many American families. For you saving all does people's lives you were able to create more families. Probably now they may be parents, or even grandparents. You also made many people realize that we are responsible for others. Everybody should help one another no matter what!
For all the actions you took you have given me courage and strength. I know that I may not receive a medal or any award, but I don't really care about that. I know that I can save people's lives or just help them in different ways. I can see that you tried your hardest to stay alive. Even though there were explosions of rockets. You ran across many times to save people or soldiers. What was more amazing was that you refused to receive medical attention. You never gave up, and now this is going to be me. I'm never going to give up at anything.
From the date that you received the Medal of Honor which was around March of 1969 from President Richard Nixon, you should be really proud of yourself. But you should have more than that. I think you deserve a day for yourself and others that received that Medal of Honor. A Day which you will get a big ceremony that nobody would forget about. Every time that I go to church I will pray for you, for God to help you in this life, because for me it's amazing what you did.
Thank you for taking your time to read my letter, and you have not only my respect but from others too. Your sacrifice will always be on my mind and heart. I thank you once more with all my heart for what you did to me and this Nation.

Clarence Sasser

Clarence Sasser

Born: September 12, 1947 Chenango Texas

War: Vietnam

Rank: Specialist 5th Class, US Army

Location of action: Ding Tuong Province, Republic of Vietnam

Date of action: January 10, 1968

Medal received from: President Richard Nixon, March 1969

Official Citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty. Specialist 5th Class Sasser distinguished himself while assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3d Battalion. He was serving as a medical aidman with Company A, 3d Battalion, on a reconnaissance in force operation. His company was making an air assault when suddenly it was taken under heavy small arms, recoilless rifle, machinegun and rocket fire from well fortified enemy positions on three sides of the landing zone. During the first few minutes, over 30 casualties were sustained. Without hesitation, Specialist 5th Class Sasser ran across an open rice paddy through a hail of fire to assist the wounded. After helping one man to safety, was painfully wounded in the left shoulder by fragments of an exploding rocket. Refusing medical attention, he ran through a barrage of rocket and automatic weapons fire to aid casualties of the initial attack and, after giving them urgently needed treatment, continued to search for other wounded. Despite two additional wounds immobilizing his legs, he dragged himself through the mud toward another soldier 100 meters away. Although in agonizing pain and faint from loss of blood, Specialist 5th Class Sasser reached the man, treated him, and proceeded on to encourage another group of soldiers to crawl 200 meters to relative safety. There he attended their wounds for fivehours until they were evacuated. Specialist 5th Class Sasser's extraordinary heroism is in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflects great credit upon himself, his unit, and the U.S. Army.

Drumming, and Attendance

Last month I didn't accomplish many goals. Probably I just needed more time.
Now it got better I accomplished two of my goals.

1. Learn how to play the drums

2. Have good attendance

I learned how to play the drums. I got Mr. Bates for second period. He is the teacher for General Music. I really liked his class, so I joined the Drum Line. There I play the snares. I stay for Drum Line , from Mon-Fri. Now I know the basics of drumming now I'm learning advanced techniques.



The 2nd goal that I've been accomplishing , is having good attendance. I haven't missed no day since the first day of school. I hope that I keep going like that. I have never received an award for perfect attendance, hope I get it.

Now is Time, Undocumented Immigrants poem

My Quote..From Martin Luther King Jr.

" Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God's children"

This quote was important to the audience because in those times, not all of the people were able to do what ever they wanted. The African Americans weren't able to have a good job. To hang around White people. Or even use the washroom when ever they wanted. They were always the last at everything. This quote made them happy because now they are going to have the doors open, to do what ever they want. With out nobody telling them nothing. Everybody was going to be treated the same and have the same rights.

This quote was important to me because, because everybody should have the same rights. Everybody should have same opportunities to do anything they want to do. We are all God's children. It don't matter if we are different colors, different race, or different in anything. WE ARE ALL GOD'S CHILDREN!!!!!!!



A Dream Deferred
by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore-- And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?



What happens to a undocumented immigrant?

Does it worry a lot about what will happen to him or her everyday
like getting arrested?
Or getting separated
like not seeing your family for a long time.
Does it scare you
like a dog chasing you?
Or do you complete your American Dream
like any other family?
Maybe it is something that is in my head.
Like something you worry about.
or does it make sense?

My poem is about how I wonder, what the immigrants feel like, most of the time they are probably scared... But i still wonder.

American Dream

me

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Yes to UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS!!!!!!!!!

Yes the undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay here in the U.S. Everyone should have freedom to be where ever they want to be. They move because they probably don't have a good life where they use to live. Their economy may be really bad. Everyone in this world is the same, we just don't have same looks. But how would the world be with everybody looking and being the same? Boring Right!




Many people don't want undocumented immigrants here in the United States. But how much will they have to spend to get most undocumented immigrants out of America? 10 million undocumented persons currently in the country and 500,000 successfully cross the border each year. The treasury estimates the cost to be at least $206 billion over 5 years ($41.2 billion annually), and could even be as high as $230 billion. Assuming that 2 million of the 10 million would leave on their own.

Didn’t all our ancestors immigrated here too? Every family must have had someone that immigrated here, but they don't really think about it because they may already have papers. They should look back to their past. Barack Obama supports this idea too. In one of the speeches he said "People have to remember not everybody who came through Ellis Island had papers that were perfect, you know. Now everybody who came across the Canadian Border, you know met Regis test Citizenship. Part of this country has to renew and republish it's self constantly."

We all can Do it!!!!!!!

This video is showing how undocummented immigrants are doing what ever they can to get papers. Not only latinos but other races too. How there's a lot of undocummented immigrantes in many states here in the U.S.. We all can do it together!!

I Accomplished THEM!!!!

Well since the biggining of the year I wanted to accomplish many goals. From all of them I got higher rank. but it's not the rank that i expected. I wanted to be the v-ball captain, but i couln't. I finally wanted to get good grades, and pass all my classes , which i did. Right now I have A's and B's.

Well I'm going to to keep trying to achieve all the other goals that I have. Probably by getting good grades I'll get a beter rank. I will never stop trying.

Mary Garlic

My name is Mary garlic. I live in marshall, Louisiana. I am 97 years old. My time of when I was aslave was tragical. I passed through many bad stuff, but I made it out. Now Im here to talk about it. I was seperated from my parents when I was 5 years old, Erik had raped my mom, and then killed her. Then he killed my dad.....As I had said Erik Anderson before, he became my owner, after what he did to my parents. He was the meanest, well that I could think of. I got raped when I was 16 in 1891, I was in my room with my friend, and Erik was runk. He first started grabing my friend but I defended her, and instead I was the one hurt, but I couln't do any thing about it. He took me to this room, hitting me at the same time...then that nightmare happened. But wait, that didn't saty like that, one day when he was sleeping I put a poisoness snake on his bed, and he got bitten. He never found out it was me. 5 years later I escaped with my friend, he was drunk and had fallen asleep, so we made it out. After tat I went to live far away where their was no slavery..

GetTing OuR VaLu3s

Don’t you ever ask yourself how come we all have different values?

This is what I think:

We get our values and the way of thinking by how we live at home. If my parents teach me to be clean I’ll be clean too. If they teach me to like education, I’ll like education. If they take you to mass every Sunday morning, you will get use to it and will just get a habit of it and keep going to mass. If the parents don’t have any real values, the kid will have to do it by him self. That’s what I think………….

As always all of my friends have different opinions. Some say that the parents don’t have to do anything with this. If the kid wants to have a whole different life they can do it. They could have their own values. They can all get their friends advise…..good advice. They can think about having a good education, or care about money, or even government. But everybody has different values.

My family has both mine, and friends’ opinion. It all depends in the person. But that person also needs help from someone, and could get it mostly from how the parents think. This is how I think they get certain values in their lives.

So what you THINK?????????

Kimberly's Goals

Something that I have done that no one in class has is probably be that I have been to 12 different states in both United States and Mexico

I am:

a. competative

b. crazy

c. talkative

Kimberly: Kimberly is of Old English origin, and its meaning is "Cyneburg's field". Place name and surname.

Goals that I have from now until June 15, 2009:

• Get straight A's
  



• Have more friends
  



• Get higher rank in JROTC




• Join drill team




• Read more




• Speak better in English




• Join the Farragut's soccer team




• Make my handwriting better




• Make better essays




• Learn how to play the drums




• Have good attendance




• Get to have patience




• Not talk a lot during my classes




• Participate in every single of my classes




• Be a leader