I am poem

“I AM”
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face
I wonder why people make others cry rivers
I hear myself crying and yelling in the inside like a new born baby
I see her mother yelling and screaming, making me come down her own daughters face
I want her to stop, but now it’s too late I am running slowly and steadily down her face
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

I pretend not to listen to her cruel words breaking me like shattering glass
I feel my cold, wet self running down her cheek
I touch her lips as I make my way slowly down
I worry her mother might see my transparent and lonesome self
I cry “stop, your words stab her heart like a knife”
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

I understand her worry of motherly love but
I say the young girl loves her mother no matter what
I dream of them together as a happy family so
I try to make it happen by showing my self
I hoped it would happen someday but right now
I am the mascara and eyeliner running down a young girls face

Maria's Journey

Story:

We start our story with Maria being deported back to Mexico from Phoenix. All Maria really wants to be back with her family in Chicago, Illinois. Two days late Maria tries to cross the border by climbing a fence but she gets caught by the police with ten other people. Three or four days later she has to cross again. This time she has made it to Phoenix but has to cross the freeway she is very scared but if she wants to see her family again she has to do it. On her way throw the freeway she is caught again. This time she returns to her own house where she is completely alone. She seats and thinks about her family and a way to get to them and started crying because she missed them very much. She decide she well try again in a week. When the week past she made her way to the woman in charge of passing people throw the border. This woman give her documents to go throw the border but by airplane. Maria was very happy that she can finally see her family. She went to the airport got on the plain and made it all the way to Phoenix. Finally she makes her way to a local burger king and waits 5 hours for her family. When they get there she starts crying and hugs her kids. While her husband pays for her trip here.

The Medal of Honor

Every morning you wake up remembering that day you save the life of one of your follow soldier, when you risk your life and gave everything up for the life of the person you worked with. Remembering the last thing you said to your family members and thinking if you are ever going to see them again. These thought and memories still did not stop you. You put your mind on something and did it that is why you are now a Medal of Honor winner.

The medal to me means that you are the bravest of the bravest, that you are caring and heroic. It’s having the highest honor. I believe this because the recipients risk their lives to save others. Also they save some bodies lives so they are a hero and they must have cared about all the people to risk there lives to save them. Because of there action I believe that they deserve having the highest honor for saving other lives.

The Medal of Honor is given by the president to the bravest soldiers. These soldiers have to make an important decision of risking there lives to save the lives of other. The most amazing part was that some soldiers did not even thing about it because they already knew that what to do.

To me the statement “sometimes it is easier winning the metal of honor than to wear it” means that they do not want to be know for something they did because everybody could have done it. I also believe that it takes a very heroic person to stand up for something they believe strongly about. Maybe anybody could have it done but nobody got up but you.

In conclusion I think that the Medal of Honor mean that you are very heroic and is only given to the bravest soldiers that risk their lives to save others. Even though some of the winners of the medal say that it was easier to win the medal than to wear it I believe that it is one of the most highest honor given to a soldier and should be put on with pride. Also some say that they did not want to be known for something they did because everybody could have done it but it takes a very brave and heroic person to stand up and do what they did. Thank you for being brave soldier it makes me proud to be an American.

Paul J. Wiedorfer

Dear Staff Sergeant Paul J. Wiedorfer,

My name is Lupe Melendez. I am 15 years old. I attend Farragut Career Academy in Chicago, Illinois. I am in the JROTC program in school. I am also in my second year of high school. I’m writing this letter to thank you for your bravery and for risking your life to save other by stopping the two machinegun nest. Then leading the platoon until the mission was accomplished.
Your bravery has benefited our country by saving lives of others. You have showed this country that we can help others with out wanting anything for ourselves and not be selfish and only think about them selves. Also you showed this country that super heroes are real and they are normal, every day people.
Your have showed me personally that there are people that are really care about all kinds of people. That is willing to risk their lives to save lives of others when they are in need. The best part is that you are a person that does not want anything back for yourself.
I would like to wish you a happy, peaceful and long life. Also that you get everything you have ever wanted.
Sincerely,
Lupe Melendez

Medal of Honor: Wiedorfer, Paul j.

WIEDORFER, PAUL J.

Rank and organization: Staff Sergeant (then Private), U.S. Army, Company G, 318th Infantry, 80th Infantry Division.

Place and date: Near, Chaumont, Belgium, 25 December 1944. Entered service at: Baltimore, Md. Birth: Baltimore, Md. G.O. No.: 45, 12 June 1945.

Citation: He alone made it possible for his company to advance until its objective was seized. Company G had cleared a wooded area of snipers, and 1 platoon was advancing across an open clearing toward another wood when it was met by heavy machinegun fire from 2 German positions dug in at the edge of the second wood. These positions were flanked by enemy riflemen. The platoon took cover behind a small ridge approximately 40 yards from the enemy position. There was no other available protection and the entire platoon was pinned down by the German fire. It was about noon and the day was clear, but the terrain extremely difficult due to a 3-inch snowfall the night before over ice-covered ground. Pvt. Wiedorfer, realizing that the platoon advance could not continue until the 2 enemy machinegun nests were destroyed, voluntarily charged alone across the slippery open ground with no protecting cover of any kind. Running in a crouched position, under a hail of enemy fire, he slipped and fell in the snow, but quickly rose and continued forward with the enemy concentrating automatic and small-arms fire on him as he advanced. Miraculously escaping injury, Pvt. Wiedorfer reached a point some 10 yards from the first machinegun emplacement and hurled a handgrenade into it. With his rifle he killed the remaining Germans, and, without hesitation, wheeled to the right and attacked the second emplacement. One of the enemy was wounded by his fire and the other 6 immediately surrendered. This heroic action by 1 man enabled the platoon to advance from behind its protecting ridge and continue successfully to reach its objective. A few minutes later, when both the platoon leader and the platoon sergeant were wounded, Pvt. Wiedorfer assumed command of the platoon, leading it forward with inspired energy until the mission was accomplished.


I would like to thank you for being brave also for saving a lot of people, risking your life to save them and taking command of the soldiers until the mission was over. You are a true hero. Many people would not have risk their lives to save other but you did and for that I would like to thank you again.

2 more goals down!!!!!

I have accomplished 2 goals. Some of the goals I accomplish took me more than five weeks because they were difficult to finish. But others took me about 3 to 4days.

*The first goal I accomplished was to go the corner store and buy a giant jawbreaker then eat it. This goal took me 3 days to accomplish because I had to save money and pick a good day to go to the store. When I first got it I was so glad because I’ve been waiting for a long time to eat my first giant jawbreaker and it was supposed to be sour. Then when I stared eating it, it was not sour at all I was kind of mad but I got over it because it started to change color. At the end it was full of gum that made me like it even more.

*My second and last goal I accomplished this month was to play Dark Alliance 2 by my self. While I played this game by myself I was very happy because I didn’t need to share my money with nobody. This made me very happy because my cousin would always take more than half of the money for his self. Also while playing I found out a lot of new for example how to make a fire, snow, and keen powered sword. This helped me passed the whole game without using invincibility and I have never done that before. Which made me very happy and proud because I found out can really do a lot of things if I tried.

My Parents American Dreams

These are my parents american dream.