As veterans of both the blue and grey replaced bullets with words, a new distinction from history and memory formed. Publishing magazines like Century actively solicited veterans, in particular, officers, to write personal accounts of key battles. However, Century’s editors refused to publish any gruesome pieces depicting battlefield carnage. They strove to further the notion of brotherhood by publishing stories that highlighted shared hardships. By soliciting rank-and-file, officers and high-ranking generals to write for them, the magazine achieved two important goals: a complete soldiers’ account of the war (history) and the spread of reconciliationism (memory). “The Century editors,” Blight…
The soldiers experienced such physical, emotional, and mental pain that they became unfit for fighting. It is estimated that almost one third of soldiers that died didn’t die from the war, but from the pain the war caused aside from fighting, such as: famine, emotional sickness, and mental breakdowns. The author, Erich Maria Remarque, shows the reader new perspectives and gives them different ideas to focus on to illustrate the severity of the Effects of World War One. In perception, all of the endless pain was pointless. The war was at a standstill point; such unnecessary harm was caused for what? To prove that one country can kill more than another? To prove that one alliance can outlast another? The main idea is this: The war was a waste of time, money, technology, and life. The book shows how the soldiers suffered, which adds to the idiocy that caused the war to continue. After reading the book, it is apparent that the war only caused harm. The war itself lead to millions of lives being lost, countries being torn apart, an economic downfall- the list is endless. In the end, there is only one final question readers and historians have to ask to understand the war: Was it really worth it all? After reading the book, the answer is no. The mental instability, physical pain, and emotional sadness was not worth…
"As you leave the theater, you feel like you 've been on a 90 minute deployment to the frontlines of Afganastan," said documenter Sebastion Junger. Fear, sorrow, stress, exaution; all emotions that soldiers try to exile to the lett frequented parts of their minds. The battle inside a soldier 's head is just as real and difficult as the firefight he has to battle at the same time. However, a being a soldier is not just the pinnicle example of pain. Solidiers embrace the brotherhood they experience and adopt each of their brothers into their own family. Restrepo examplifies the struggle and suffering to the comradary and didication of the modern day warrior.…
division of soldiers as they contract with death of fellow soldiers, depression and battling with the war…
I have chosen three different types of media to share with you about how significant the effects or consequences of war can be. I have selected some pictures from Eddie Adams the article “After Duty, Dogs Suffer Like Soldiers” and the video: James Nachtwey’s Searing Photo’s of War. These three pieces of media will definitely astound you. You may never think that war could have such a dramatic effect on people or animals.…
Kempner presents many stylistic and rhetorical techniques to show his thoughts about the Vietnam War. He uses vivid imagery to show the awful things he saw and experienced in his time there. He has a very negative tone throughout the whole letter and uses sarcasm intended to provoke unfavorable thoughts and opinions about the war. Kempner also utilizes a variety of different types and lengths of sentences.…
Then Terry, father diagnosed by a doctor that something is wrong with him. An example from the text found on page 50 when it states,”It’s from the war, his mother had said. The doctors at the veterans’ hospital call it the Vietnam syndrome.”This is important because a doctor had said that he had a syndrome from the war and it’s probable PTSD.…
The first essay G.I Joe: Fighting for Home by John Morton Blum and the second essay American Liberals: Fighting for a Better World by Alan Brinkley both 'look at the experience of the war from different vantage points: that of the soldier fighting for his own elemental survival as well as for his country, and that of the society back home.”…
Soldiers looked for ways to communicate their experience to those who were not soldiers. O”Brien, Komunyakka, and Owen are soldiers who each wrote a text describing soldiers at war from their personal point of view. O”Brien writes to get others to understand the physical, mental, and emotional things soldiers carried during war. Komunyakka writes to get others to understand how the soldiers must face death and reality at the same time while also having emotions as any other human does. Owen writes and exhibits his frustration with the condition that the soldiers were in and the point of view of people who haven’t experienced war first hand. All three soldiers wrote to better communicate with the world the conditions and reality to those…
The Vietnam War was considered one of the bloodiest battles ever in the history of the United States. Not only were soldiers harmed physically during the war, but they were also wounded mentally. There are endless accounts of soldiers leaving the war and coming home not just with bullet wounds, but the memories that followed with it. These memories caused soldiers to not sleep at night and in some cases ruining their lives and forcing them to suicide. After the war, specialists came up with a name for this “disease” that was destroying the lives of many Vietnam veterans. They classified it as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. (National) The psychological burdens of war, such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, have substantial effects on soldiers in the armed forces making reentry into civilian life challenging.…
Blum, John Morton. V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture during World War II. New York:…
War brings out the worst in human nature. Soldiers pinned against one another, and for what purpose? Justice, life and freedom? No, all these luxuries can not be afforded by the dead. Those soldiers who have survived this “clash of ideas” , and have been captured by the enemy, have seen a fate worst than death.…
“Iraq, Vietnam, and the Dilemmas of United States Soldiers.” Opendemocracy.com. Open Democracy, 24 May 2006. Web. 7 Mar. 2010.…
The common phrase, "Don 't judge a man until you 've walked a mile in his shoes”, tells the world to never put a label on an individual before you have truly experienced what they have gone through. Tim O Brien 's work, In the Lake of the Woods, shows how men who have all experienced war, truly have walked in each other’s shoes. These traumatizing experiences impact the human spirit dramatically because once back from the war, veterans struggle to live normal lives. Only men and women who have experienced this brutality can begin to understand why veterans from every war are left traumatized and haunted by the terrifying scene called war. O’Brien’s novel shows the journey of a narrator trying to heal from his own war experience by living vicariously through John Wade. Through his reconstruction of John Wade’s life, the narrator is able to come to terms with his identity. He realizes that his own experiences have affected him tremendously, and through his research he can slowly begin to heal.…
As of December 2009, over 3.3 million American troops have been sent overseas into Iraq and Afghanistan alone; 793,000 of them have been deployed more than once. (Tan, 2009) Sadly, not all of our troops return home alive and many that do face many challenges ahead. Physical wounds surly do not go unnoticed. They are fairly common in war time situations and are even shown in war movies. They show the viewer a sense of what a soldier goes through when injured and what to expect; but what about the mental wounds? The United States sends thousands of military men and women overseas into battle, returning them home with not only physical wounds but mental wounds as well.…