“A
love for tradition has never weakened a nation; indeed it has strengthened
nations in their hour of peril.”
–Winston Churchill A duty or more of a tradition? Most people would call
it both but an individual doesn’t seem to know what his duty may be. Reflect
and realize how many people do not do the basic traditions of a nation that may
make it stronger.
An
individual’s duty would be to vote for his leader not to blindly follow what
was elected for him. As a quote from
JFK’s Anogaral address he states, “Ask not what your country can do for you but
what you can do for your country.” What an individual can do for their country
is to vote it is not only a proud tradition in America it should be a duty,
instead of complaining about who was voted take action. However if you vote
don’t be blind research into the candidates and what they stand for don’t be
ignorant and vote for people based on anything that’s not about their ideas
such as color, looks, religion and even party. None of it should worry to a
voter, only main ideas and points from the candidate. An example can be found
by our past election when Obama was elected President, individuals were
screaming for Obama to be president. When asked what he stood for however most
people couldn’t answer that they simply voted for him based on his skin color.
An
individual should not only vote for people but for bills as well. The
constitution states “All men are created equal, with certain unalienable rights
that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to
secure these rights, governments are instituted among men.” This being said it
is your responsibility to be able to vote for bills to be passed. However some bills
and such can’t be voted for so it should be an individual’s responsibility to
let his representative know that he wouldn’t like such bills to be passed. Not
because an individual doesn’t like what they say but because these bills are to
promote life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness to the people. Knowing this,
should an individual simply go about blindly without voting? Without having his
opinion heard? Well that is a question that neither I nor anyone else can
answer; only you as the reader can answer this question.
An
individual should have pride for his or her country. How an individual can have
pride for their country is as simple as just saying the pledge every morning.
In the long run the smallest things matter, having everybody unite and say the
pledge is a way of unity among the people. An individual should do things to help
their country and have pride doing it. Small things like picking up the trash
on the side of the road can help your country. To help Promote ones nation to
be clean and united helping with small things such as saying the pledge and
picking up trash may seem very small but it can help people stay united and
clean. Think about it if everybody said the pledge and picked up trash how much
more united and clean our country can be?
The
traditions of our nation can only strengthen us as a whole if we as a nation
stick to our traditions than our country can be much more united. To not fight
with each other but instead fight together against things like disease, greed,
and hunger. To not hate things we don’t know but to understand things better
and cope with such things. These can be accomplished in the end but it has to
start with you, the individual
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