On February 11, the world had to say goodbye to yet another great singer, Whitney Houston. She died at the Beverly Hilton hotel where she was staying to get ready for the grammy's which were the next night. She died in the bath tub of her hotel room and it was said she was full of pain pills and was drinking a lot of alcohol. What she didn't know was that the mixture of alcohol with the pain pills, can kill you, which it did.
It's a sad thing that Whitney had to pass away, but she did it to herself. She has done drugs in her past and continued to do them. She overdosed on the pills and drank way to much alcohol. I feel bad that she's gone, but it's not the end of the world.
What I don't understand is we make the death of a celebrity or sports coach top headline news, but when another soldier in Iraq or Afghanistan dies, we do nothing about it. Sure, soldiers die every day, but maybe once a week or every month we could do a tribute to them. They are the ones putting their life on the line for us and our country. They go through hell and back to win and keep us safe.
Being a soldier in that war is no fun and games. They don't get paid tons of millions of dollars to do what they love. They volunteer their lives to fight for our country. A lot of the soldiers have families with kids back home too, just think of what those people must go through. Every day without speaking to each other, it must be in their head "What if they're dead, or I never see them again". We need to give our soldiers a lot more credit than they have been getting. They are the real heroes and real celebrities in this world.
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