Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Ladies, gentlemen, parents, friends, family, staff, fellow students preferably of taking up more time and reading my speech, it is available to you at http//www.olens_speech.com. Thank you. No, just kidding. But seriously folks... Today we are poised here to celebrate our graduation from 12 long years of schooling. The study granted to us has been a privilege. One so graciously pr iodin to us by the citizens of our state, by our community, and by our parents. Today would not be possible without them. So far this evening we have viewed back everywhere the many past memories of our school years, remembering the good times and the bad, public lecture about the fun times, and so on. Now I would like to induce your focus to the present, and make a ch all toldenge for us for the rising. The ceremony tonight is a very old and traditional one. In past, such a graduation meant not only the completion of a school career, but also a step into adulthood, into society, into the earthl y concern. With this came many duties and responsibilities. This still applies to today. Im sure many of you have heard the going into the real world speech as often quoted at tall school graduations. You k straight off, the one outlining the responsibilities of living on your own cooking your own meals, balancing a checkbook, doing your own laundry, etc. Those are all well and good, but Im talking about something a little different responsibilities which go beyond those the duties and rights of citizenship. Most of you are 18 already, or ordain be very soon, this is the age at which we can vote. As full citizens, it is now our right, and one which we should not let pass by. Our country is founded upon a democracy, and all democracies have one integral part power b... ...hould in the future tense suffer what they did to save freedom by bloodshed. We owe it to them to prevent wars, and to know, to understand, to teach, and to watch out from our neighbors around the world, so that we might learn to live in peace. I am saying all of this tonight as a take exception to us as we venture forth this day. It is tempting for us as graduating seniors to treat this moment as one of reveling in our independence from high school. But this night is not just for the moment it is also for our futures to look back to. Lets celebrate the parvenue privilege and obligation which will be given to us as the class of the new millennium to make it better than the past. For we should all be concerned with the future, because that is where we will all spend the rest of our lives. Thank you, everyone. And the best of luck to the future of the Class of 2006