appear in day to day life events. One of these day to day war like images appears in The Battler where readers learn the story of Ad Frances. Ad was once a professional fighter, but he is now very disfigured and presumably lives out near the train tracks. Many different points of Ad’s life coincide with Krebs life in Soldier’s Home. Krebs has just come back from war, and he is trying to go back to living his day to day life. Despite Ad being a professional fighter and Krebs being a war veteran,…
19% percent of students graduating high school in America are illiterate and 32,000,000 adults can not read. The amount of food waste generated by the US could eradicate world hunger four times over and veterans who have had their legs blown off by IEDS in Afghanistan are waiting ten to fifteen years to receive their benefits after serving this country. Meanwhile, childhood poverty does not exist in Norway. India, France, Russia, and most other industrialized as well as non-industrialized…
Another stereotype and misconception that Veterans are given is that they are they are only good for killing others as well as to being completely uneducated and do not have any other skill other than the one they they get from training and working for the military. The skills that they do receive from the military are completely useless when adapting to civilian life, and veterans are viewed by some as useless, unskilled, and unemployed. That they are a huge waste of taxpayer money if they were…
THE CHOICE TO LEAVE THE MILITARY After 19 years of military life, the multiple lengthy trainings, the missed Christmas and holidays away from family and the endless cycle of deployments and work-ups, he made the choice. In the form of a simple request to his captain the request went simply, “Respectfully request to retire from Active Duty upon the end of obligated service and transfer into the Fleet Reserves”. The words he wrote brought fear of the uncertain to his mind. The decision was…
Part of him lies dead with his fellow soldiers in the jungle of Vietnam, but as a survivor he must live on with the rest of himself that still remains in “flesh” (5). The war is so ingrained in the speaker's life that he can not escape it. At the monument “a red bird's / wings cutting across my stare. / The sky. A plane in the sky.” (22-24) At every moment the threat of an enemy plane dropping bombs from the sky may invade his consciousness, replacing otherwise harmless sights with a living…
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom was a powerful story about a man and the lessons he learned in heaven. Eddie was a maintenance man who worked at ruby pier amusement park, he didn't really enjoy his job. Eddie's wife, Marguerite, was the love of his life and he highly adored her. In the book, the five people you meet in heaven Eddie learned many different meaningful lessons such as forgiveness, that love never ends, and that everyone has a purpose in life. Throughout…
Sir, I have initiated an internship program for newly discharged veterans in my Information Technology department. This would be a 6-month paid internship to work as an IT Systems Engineer, IT Systems Administrator, IT Systems Analyst within the information technology department in a civilian organization. This would be a transitional period for you allowing you to gain experiences in both the civilian and technology fields. In this effort, I have connected with the MSSA Program…
If I was stranded on a deserted island and a lifeboat came and I had to choose between a healthy three-year-old, an elderly Nobel Prize winner, a single father of two young children, a thirty-year-old decorated combat veteran, and a middle-aged doctor who has performed life-saving surgery to save, I would choose to save the single father with two kids. It would be a hard decision to make but having two kids I would want them to have a father. I would choose to save the father of two because…
welcoming they serve as great company when feeling alone. Peacock, Hansen, and Winefield (2012) suggests that companion animal ownership contributes to overall improved well-being. That is why weak elderly people, dependent disabled people, anxious war veterans, and riotous children, can all experience positive reactions from having an animal as a companion. One group of people that could benefit from having a feline companion are elderly people. A pet could support an aged person emotionally…
leadership in the planning, coordinating and implementation of the Peritoneal Dialysis Program. This is a brand new program, developed to bring back the Veterans who were receiving their care out in the community. With the complexity of their care due to multiple co-morbidities it is critical for them to receive all their care at the Providence Veterans Administration Medical Center (PVAMC). Evidence based resources were used in creating the program and the Peritoneal Dialysis International…