Graduation Speech -- Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Ladies, gentlemen, pargonnts, friends, family, staff, fellow students Instead 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. solely if seriously folks... Today we argon gathered here to celebrate our showtime from 12 long years of developing. The education granted to us has been a privilege. One so graciously presumptuousness to us by the citizens of our state, by our community, and by our parents. Today would non be possible without them. So furthest this evening we surrender looked back over the many past memories of our school years, remembering the good times and the bad, talking close to the fun times, and so on. Now I would like to bring your focus to the present, and make a ch exclusivelyenge for us for the future. The ceremony tonight is a very gray-haired and traditional one. In past, such a graduation meant not only the comp allowion of a school career, but also a pure tone into adu lthood, into society, into the world. 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 very much quoted at high school graduations. You know, the one outlining the responsibilities of living on your have got 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 will 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 full part power b... ...hould in the future suffer what they did to save immunity by bloodshed. We owe it to them to prevent wars, and to know, to understand, to teach, and to learn from our neighbors around the world, so that we superpower learn to live in peace. I am saying all of this tonight as a challenge to us as we bet on 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 new privilege and responsibility which will be given to us as the class of the new millennium to make it kick downstairs than the past. For we should all be concerned with the future, because that is where we will all spend the residual of our lives. Thank you, everyone. And the best of luck to the future of the Class of 2006