Commemorating the Ultimate Sacrifice
Option 2: “For those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, we are grateful that such men and women were among us” (Buyer 2022). In a previous assignment, I discussed the legacy and history of my great Uncle Carmen. Carmen was a seventeen-year-old boy who wanted to fight in the war and contribute to the World War II war effort. To get approval to fight in the war, his mother had to sign paperwork and give her approval for him to fight in the war effort. After his training, Carmen was stationed in the Pacific and fought in multiple smaller conflicts, however, his first major battle was the battle of Iwo Jima, which today is known as “one of the bloodiest fights in the entire war effort.” Until the battle at Iwo Jima, Carmen wrote to his family twice a week about the war effort, what he was hearing, and just wanting to check in with them and how he was proud to be serving the best country on earth. In his final letter, Carmen informed his family he was being...