Beach

Memorial weekend in the eyes of the college students is just a long break from school, to release the stress and relax. As for me, I decided to head to the beach with my friends. It was unusually cold for day near the end of May. The beach reminded me of the scene from Saving Private Ryan when the soldiers landed on the beach of Normandy. The soldiers were targets of machine guns and turrets, they were bathed in blood meanwhile we were bathed in sunlight. This comparison triggered my thought that America's newer generation is not as involved with the nation as the past. It seems that we take things for granted, and a day commemorated to the soldiers of the past is not as meaningful as the moment it was declared a holiday.