All Quiet On The Western Front Essay

What is a war hero? Many people would say that a war hero is someone who put their life on the line or even died for their cause. War heroes often possess traits such as selflessness, sacrifice, and courage, that help them do everything in their will to make the world a better place and to protect what they believe is right. In examples such as the Revolutionary War, the war heroes were fighting for freedom against oppression from an overbearing government; in the civil war, they fought for or against slavery and states rights; in the Cold War, they fought against the spread of Communism. Every war is different, but the few things that the wars have in common are the soldiers and the traits that they possess. Every soldier has to have selflessness, or they would not fight. They are fighting for what …show more content…
During any war, men and women leave their families and normal life behind to go and fight for those they love. Even men and women who don’t have their own families sacrifice a lot, in “All Quiet on the Western Front”, in is inferred that they don’t have as much to lose, but instead, they become indifferent to the society that they grow up and live in. War heroes, such as the soldier in Ernest Hemingway’s short story “Soldier’s Home” are young, and sacrifice their lives at home, trading it in for a completely different world. The main character, simply known as “Krebs”, is one such man. Not all are exalted, but, as many believe, all who fight for a cause are war heroes. During the two decades of the 1950s to the 1970s, the longest war in United States history, the Vietnam war, was a battleground for sacrifice and war heroes. They did not have to be there, but they were, simply due to the fact that the government wanted them to be there. Thousands gave their lives to a lost cause, destroyed by the traps and ambushes of the guerrilla warfare that took place. These war heroes sacrificed themselves to help the