Was it really worth it? As I sit in front of my childhood home this is what I contemplate. Sure I received medals honouring my deeds; sure I received wealth, fame and power because of it but what will any of that mean now? Sure you have to crack a few eggs to make an omelette but how many eggs is too many? 10? 20? 100? 1000? Those numbers together don’t even come close to the number I sacrificed. It was ambition that ultimately led to these feelings, maybe if I had of just followed in my fathers foot steps and farmed the land on which I sit currently, maybe it would have turned out differently. Of course I wouldn’t have the wealth, fame or power that I do now and is that really worth it either?
World War 2 kicked off with a bang around the …show more content…
This is what haunts me today; of all the atrocities I have committed and ordered, even cheered when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although I was not the one that authorised the development of Agent Orange, the ‘Forrest thinner.’ No that ‘honour’ belongs to John F. Kennedy whom in my eyes payed for this with his life. I did not develop Agent Orange, however I was the first to use it. And you know the US, bigger is better. Our boys were pinned down something horrid, there were up in the trees and hidden under ground in the jungle, there were reports of traps called ‘spider wholes’ in which a soldier would fall head first into and then be cut into by a Vietnamese katana. To say the very least this made the boys terrified of entering that jungle, so I thought Agent Orange could change that. We dropped 100000 gallons on that forest in one go; the short answer is it worked. The rest is history. This was the single most disgusting thing I had ever done, after seeing the reports of the aftermath. I couldn’t stop puking. I resigned from the military shortly after discovering that my government were still authorising the use of Agent
World War 2 kicked off with a bang around the …show more content…
This is what haunts me today; of all the atrocities I have committed and ordered, even cheered when the bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Although I was not the one that authorised the development of Agent Orange, the ‘Forrest thinner.’ No that ‘honour’ belongs to John F. Kennedy whom in my eyes payed for this with his life. I did not develop Agent Orange, however I was the first to use it. And you know the US, bigger is better. Our boys were pinned down something horrid, there were up in the trees and hidden under ground in the jungle, there were reports of traps called ‘spider wholes’ in which a soldier would fall head first into and then be cut into by a Vietnamese katana. To say the very least this made the boys terrified of entering that jungle, so I thought Agent Orange could change that. We dropped 100000 gallons on that forest in one go; the short answer is it worked. The rest is history. This was the single most disgusting thing I had ever done, after seeing the reports of the aftermath. I couldn’t stop puking. I resigned from the military shortly after discovering that my government were still authorising the use of Agent