Just Another Veterans Day Essay -- Personal Narrative Essay Example

Just Another Veterans Day   My nanna and I stopped in DC before we met up with my parents to go on a trip. The fact that we were at that place on Veterans Day was tho a coincidence. True to my historic completelyy disinterested generation, the crowds of people as we left(a) the hotel to walk towards the mall perplexed me. Only momentarily, of course the hundreds of predominantly middle-aged men, defiantly strutting, proudly adorning their wheelchairs and various prosthetics, required little introduction and less(prenominal) explanation. Amidst them I, not yet 15, variably slithered with ignorance, the inexperience of war and alongside, my Belgian-bred grandmother, veteran to a war these men could not know.   Uncharacteristically, I fell prey to holidaymaker trappings photographing the Lincoln Memorial, vainly attempting to hunt down and shoot the mavin angle of the Reflecting Pool that no one, in the history of history, had yet to see. Others swarmed... ...e there th an I their lack of respect condemned them to a hell in which I do not particularly believe. In an attempt to capture what we all saw but were unable to comprehend, they obliterated the very purpose of this apotheosis. These soldiers, soulfully searching the black mirror for a prosthetic for their soul, their sanity a glimmer of sense in an event that defined madness they merited silence, solitude, peace. Instead, capitalism and greed spat in their face.