Today, I would like to share my opinion on the men and women who protect our country. Both those who serve overseas and those who serve inside the borders of the United States of America are heroes in my opinion.
They risk their lives everyday to keep Americans safe and most expect nothing in return. Their job is to fight crime and terror and they risk everything they have when they are on the job. Both police officers and those in the Armed Forces sacrifice many of the things they love so that we the people of the United States do not have to sacrifice the things we love. These men and women are also forced to make many tough decisions on the job including many decisions that could be the difference between life and death. These people have true courage. They do not do their job for their own benefits, they do it for our benefit. With the recent incidents involving police officers and civilians, many people are beginning to make assumptions and classifications about police officers in general. These assumptions and classifications are unfair because these incidents only involve a minuscule portion of all police officers. People break out in protests every time a cop kills a civilian, but these people do not protest when a police officer is killed by a civilian. All lives matter. It is not fair to go out and judge police officers and to hate on the people who keep our country as civilized as possible. People are questioning police officers, but the real question they should be thinking about is, why are these police officers being questioned? They are being questioned because of some individuals' actions, but if that is the case, then why not look at some individuals who were on the other side of the killings. When asked why police officers are heroes, Robert Walker had an excellent response. He said, "I guess the policemen in Dallas who were protecting the black protestors and got shot were heroes defending the right to protest. However, you could say they are heroes every day putting their lives on the line to protect others. It takes a lot of restraint and discipline to be able to do so without ‘stepping on toes.’". People probably don't even remember the shootout in Dallas when police officers were ambushed while protecting those who were protesting against the police brutality. Those police officers were helping keep people safe, even though those people were protesting against the police. That goes to show how there are a lot of good cops out there. Some of those police officers in Dallas were killed because they were protecting people's right to protest and freedom of speech. This is a prime example of officers risking it all in order to keep our country civilized and fair, and for that, those officers in Dallas that day were all heroes. However, cops don't have to be killed or attacked in order to be heroes. Every cop is a hero in my eyes because they do everything in their power to ensure that we the people maintain our rights and are acting as law abiding citizens. Many people take this for granted and don't appreciate everything cops do for them. There are countless reasons to be thankful for police men and women, however this article outlines eighteen reasons in paritcular, https://www.theodysseyonline.com/19-reasons-to-thank-police-officer . I think that if everyone would just read that article, they would realize how grateful they should be. They would also understand how uncivilized our country would be if we got rid of the police. For these reasons, I encourage everyone to take a minute and think about how different your life would be if we didn't have the police force keeping us safe. I also encourage everyone to thank the next police officer they see because showing your appreciation means a lot to our officers and it is the least we can do for them after all they do for us.

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