Douglas MacArthur once said, “The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war”. War protects us, our beliefs, and our freedom from those who wish to take is away, but like everything in the world it comes at a price. Men lose their lives or loses good friends on the field of battle and those who come home are never the same. The men who fought in the war are the victims that are most negatively affected by the it.
The life of a soldier is a hard one. The challenges that they face affect them not just physically but also mentally for the rest of their life. In chapter 9 of All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul kills a man using a knife seeing his face and the look in his eyes. He later says “We always see too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death” and later “how could you be my enemy”. The guilt and pain seen in this part is clear, he had just taken the life of a man and realized that they weren’t very different. Imagine the effect that would have on you if you had just done that. In lines 9-10 of the poem The …show more content…
In the poem “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks we read the line “He won’t be coming back here anymore”. This line describes what can happen to soldiers in the field. Soldiers in war have the possibility to not make it home to their families and die in combat. They also can get seriously injured, causing them to wish they had died or making them go through long, painful procedures. An example of this can be found in “All Quiet on the Western Front”, In chapter ten Albert Kropp has his leg amputated. This procedure caused him great pain and made his life afterwards a lot harder. The soldiers of war are the true victims because of the physical harm that is caused to
The life of a soldier is a hard one. The challenges that they face affect them not just physically but also mentally for the rest of their life. In chapter 9 of All Quiet On The Western Front, Paul kills a man using a knife seeing his face and the look in his eyes. He later says “We always see too late. Why do they never tell us that you are poor devils like us, that your mothers are just as anxious as ours, and that we have the same fear of death” and later “how could you be my enemy”. The guilt and pain seen in this part is clear, he had just taken the life of a man and realized that they weren’t very different. Imagine the effect that would have on you if you had just done that. In lines 9-10 of the poem The …show more content…
In the poem “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks we read the line “He won’t be coming back here anymore”. This line describes what can happen to soldiers in the field. Soldiers in war have the possibility to not make it home to their families and die in combat. They also can get seriously injured, causing them to wish they had died or making them go through long, painful procedures. An example of this can be found in “All Quiet on the Western Front”, In chapter ten Albert Kropp has his leg amputated. This procedure caused him great pain and made his life afterwards a lot harder. The soldiers of war are the true victims because of the physical harm that is caused to