Stepping Up

In my story Our America the two main characters LeAlan and Lloyd live in the projects and they way that deal with it is by not letting their surroundings break them down and get them. Instead of following in the wrong path, they followed in the right path by stepping up and letting their voices be heard and try to escape the harsh reality. The way im reacting towards the war is i feel like we didn't have a legit reason to go over in Iraq and invade their space anyway, and now our government wants to pay billions for the damage they have cause over there by raising taxes on us. I relate to LeAlan and Lloyd because in my world its a whole lot of stress and instead of letting it break me down I stepped up and found a quiet, relaxing place to go to and just sit back and think.