Monday, December 8, 2008

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.

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