Weekly Reader Write Your Own Inaugural Address Essay Contest

Nick Hester, Grade 3
2004-05
Pinecrest School
7209 Quiet Cove, Annandale, VA 22003
Phone: 703-354-3446

My fellow Americans I can try to make the country better. I will try as hard as I can to make your dreams come true, but they have to be things that I can do. I will try to make your life more fun. Write me letters and I will try. I will try to win the war we are having now. I thank you for electing me. I will try to make your work better and your teachers better. I will make toys more fun to play with and other types of toys that you think are boring. I will make better tools to use for cars, trains, buses, and airplanes. What you could do for your country is do a project, pick up trash, help collect food for the homeless, and other things you can think of. You could sing Christmas carols to elderly people at a shelter or some houses. I think you can do much more than I can do. I might be the president but that does not make a difference. I know that everyone has a hero inside of them. If you be that hero then you might be president or a soldier in the Army. You could also be anyone you want to be. You don't have to be the president or a soldier in the Army, you could be a firefighter, mail person, librarian, lawyer, teacher, senator, and other people you would like to be. That is what I have to say to you.