A Hero
This is dedicated to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, past, present and future; you have changed lives and won wars. Thank you.
What is a hero? The nearly blank paper asked. Alex sighed. Being new to American customs was hard, especially when you arrive at school and everyone is wearing red white and blue. Apparently, yesterday was a holiday. Memorial Day to be exact.
And Sabina hadn't warned him. Great, he thought when he walked through the wide doors and saw every one of his friends wearing either red, white, or blue. He was wearing green.
I guess I can say it's for the Army, he reasoned with himself and when his friends asked about his attire, that is exactally what he told them.
"My dad was Army." he explained, "and this is my way of remembering him." That stopped the questions, exactally how he had planned.
"Oh." Jake said, somber.
"Sorry, dude." the twins, Harry and Jerry, told him.
He smiled a smile that said he didn't want to talk about it, but he was thankful for their apologies. It was fake.
But, that didn't matter because, no matter how good he was at it, he couldn't talk his way out of writing a paragraph about a hero when the teacher was still in the room. Glaring at the paper on his desk, he grabbed his pencil where it sat next to the paper and positioned it over the paper, then stopped. What was he going to write?
Logic told him to think it through, but his heart told him to write whatever came to mind. He decided to go with option two, then revise it later.
A Hero by Alex Rider
A hero is someone who sacrifices everything they have ever known and who helps the weak; A hero is someone who may never return, but knows he made the right choice in his job; A hero is someone who can act fast and think faster; and finally, a hero is someone who, against all odds, helps.
He went back and corrected it so it looked nicer and read it over once more.
A Hero by Alex Rider
A hero is someone who sacrifices everything they have ever known. A hero is someone who may never return, but has no regrets. A hero is someone who can act fast and think faster, and finally, a hero is someone who, against all odds, helps.
He walked up to the teacher's desk, which was littered with papers that she was correcting and placed the paper in front of the paper she was correcting at that moment. She looked at the paper quickly, then, with the red marker she was using, put an oversized A on the front where no words were. Alex nodded, then returned to his seat. When he planted himself on the chair, he began to think about his Dad and what he did for the country, knowing he was the hero he wrote about.