The picture shows the graphic intensity of war. This is a picture of a man who has been gassed, presumably by Cl2. Cl2 was a gas used by both sides that irritated the eyes, lungs, and skin; it is a very nasty gas that is lethal and toxic. The man is lying on a stretcher, he has been shot, and it looks like he has been shot multiple times as spots of deep color are shown on his clothes. These dark spots look similar to an entry wound that blood is pouring out of.…
Comparing U.S. Army Suicide The study was design to compare variables collected in the DoDSER system for individuals who died by suicide during the study period of analogous data collected from a randomly selected control group of military service members (Alexander, Reger, Smolenski & Fullerton, 2014). Information on 123 suicide victims was taken from the DoDSER data collection system. The data collection consists of medical and personal records reviews, investigations and interviews reports. The control participants were randomly selected from a database maintained by the Army Human Resource System and candidates voluntarily participated.…
(Doc A) “The little souls who thirst for fight.” Would you really want to be looking forward to fight when you know you were going to die only seconds or minutes later? (Doc A) “Do not weep. War is kind.” War isn’t kind they try to glorify his death for the person that lost the soldier happy because he died for his country in the first place started the war.…
A memorable line from If I Die in a Combat Zone by Tim O’Brien is “The war in Vietnam drifted in and out of human lives, taking them or sparing them like a headless, berserk taxi hack, without evident cause, a war fought for uncertain reasons.” (O’Brien, 138) The ending of this quote particularly reflects the views of Vietnam, which is the specific reason I found this quote memorable. I feel this way because people living during the Vietnam era didn’t see this as a crucial war to be apart of. Even looking back on it in our history classes, there was very little necessity to partake in the Vietnam War.…
Scott Anderson’s novel, Triage, portrays the different effects that war and death can have on people. Mark, Joaquin, and Elena endure different experiences with war and death and are affected in different ways. Mark’s traumas originate from his time as a war photographer. His ability to capture war’s most grueling moments grants him the opportunity to shoot in many war-torn areas such as Beirut, Sri Lanka, Kurdistan, and Uganda. Mark’s first experience of war is in Beirut.…
What benefit does war serve to those who fight? This is what writers such as Stephen Crane, Wilfred Owen, Tim O’Brien, and Kevin Powers all pull into question in certain pieces of work they have created. Crane worked as a journalist and he also covered the Spanish- American War, he wrote the poem, “War Is Kind”. Owen had fought and died in World War I and Owen wrote “Dulce et Decorum Est”. O’Brien served in the Vietnam war and wrote the novel, “The Things They Carried”.…
Soldier’s Heart The dangers in the battle is all the fighting a all the suffering in the war including , frostbite, suffering by wounds , and suffering by hunger, and no water. When you suffer from frostbite it's hard to walk or feel your body and it's hard to get up and do things. The dangers i would have in feeling wise i would be suffering by not seeing my family and not being able to go to parties. More dangers are flying an airplane you can get shot and the airplane will go down and you will most likely die when it crashes.…
War Trauma; The Influence it Placed on Remarque’s Writing “On the threshold of life, they faced an abyss of death…” (A.W. Wheen, as quoted in All Quiet on the Western Front) Remarque’s novel, All Quiet on the Western Front represents an idea of loss of innocence. Soldiers during this time period are at the “threshold” of their lives, as quoted by Wheen, to only face the brutal horrors of war. The horrors of the war steal the innocence away from these young men without them even knowing. These soldiers spend their entire childhood in school, to realize that their education did not help them when it came to warfare.…
The term war carries the social connotation of an over glorified battle in which one gallantly humps off into battle in search of becoming an embodiment of the perfect soldier. As Tim O’Brian explains in his novel “The Things They Carried,” no amount of ribbons, medals, or other accolades can replace the agony, misery, and remorse one could feel during a war. The glamour of war is intricately dispersed through the common act of human nature in the novel. On the battle field, the act of killing someone can be a felicitator towards a solider enabling them to become in tune with their animal like instincts. They’ll forget empathy and pity towards another individual and lean more towards carrying out their responsibility as a soldier; having to…
In the final stanza, imagery is used to stress the moral horror of the war when Owen compares the victim’s face to ‘a devils sick of sin’ and when he compares the poisoned blood to the physical diseases of cancer and ‘vile incurable sores’. All these similes bring out the awfulness of dying in a gas attack, making a strong message to contradict the vague, Latin phrase about how sweet it is to die for your country. In ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’ Owen develops a singe image, the idea of the funeral ceremony for the dead.…
Tragedy’s of World War I Before World War I no one knew how horrific the war was going to be. War was all about nationalism, honor, and pride in fighting for your country. In All Quiet On The Western Front teachers and other role models pressured a whole generation into fighting for their country, completely blind to the fact that war was not as great and honorable when you are the one fighting. It was like torture watching each of their friends - who were close enough to be brothers die one by one, for no reason.…
Although a war is fought between nations,it is really fought by individuals who stand to lose everything in the process. The things the nations lose is nothing compared to what each and every soldier loses. Even after the war is over and the soldiers go home to their families,the war isn't over for them. The actual war is over,but the war in their own head has just began. Many soldiers can't adapt to their lives after the war.…
War is a word that usually has a negative connotation associated with it. When people think of war, most will think of death and destruction. However, some people also associate war with self-sacrifice and honour. “Dulce et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen and “The Charge of the Light Brigade” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson are the two poems that can show these two different point of views on war. These two poems share the same topic which is war but each view the topic in its own different way.…
Even a century long time after his death, Wilfred Owen is still famous for his war poetry written during World War 1. In his poem, Owen uses various language techniques to vividly illustrate the horrendous reality of the war. Hence, he communicates his own anti-war feelings implied beneath his techniques. However, although he is now known as an anti-war poet, for once, he had been a naive boy, who had volunteered to fight in war. At first, he was thrilled to fight for one’s country.…
Living in England during the second World War was a time of great anxiety; people listened to horrific events described on the radio while worrying if their home would be the next one bombed. One such story was when thousands of soldiers were trapped by an ocean and attempting to escape while protecting themselves from the Germans. This event is chronicled in the book “The War that Saved My Life” by Kimberly Brubaker Bradley as it is described on a section about The Evacuation of Denmark, which is an important event in the time period of World War II. This was a vital and awe-inspiring occurrence because of the history behind it and the number of people who banded together to help out, but also the difficulties it caused. To understand…