It takes a lot of guts to make sacrifices and the effects of them can stay with you forever. Especially in war, Sacrifices are made on a daily basis to try and keep you alive and the people around you. Sometimes those sacrifices pertain to someone's life and that guilt can last a lifetime. In the story The Things They Carried, two soldiers turned good friends Lee Strunk and Dave Jensen were faced with a hard decision when Lee was struck with a mine. They made a pact that if one of them was to get really messed up, the other will get them out of it. When this came to action Lee was too scared to go through with it, “Dave Jensen went over and kneeled by Strunk’s side… Jesus man don’t kill me” (63). Dave was faced with a tough decision on whether
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Every day soldiers are faced with death and risk their lives to keep people safe. Sacrificing their lives for the safety of their people is a big burden on them and the things they do in war will stick with them forever. In the email written by Sergeant John McCary, he explains, “Many servicemen and women have become overwhelmed by the unrelenting strain of living in a combat zone”. The effect of always being alert and faced with tough situations takes a large impact of the soldier's mind and may lead to long term issues down the road such as PTSD. They don’t just sacrifice their lives but they also sacrifice their emotions. McCary also discusses how war has affected soldiers emotions: “Many of my fellows will cry for no mercy, no compassion. For those responsible, for those whose goal is destruction purely for effect, death only as a message, for whom killing is a means of communication, I cannot promise we, or I, will give pardon”. This show’s how they have sacrificed their emotions as a result of war and how now they are “brainwashed” into only wanting to kill. They also sacrifice their lives as McCary talks about how he’s lost many friends because of the war. “They’ve killed my friends.. It’s nothing new, not really”. After being apart of war and seeing people die, death and killing is all a soldier will think about. The sacrifices soldiers have made during the war will have a huge effect and them and is something they will remember for
Every day soldiers are faced with death and risk their lives to keep people safe. Sacrificing their lives for the safety of their people is a big burden on them and the things they do in war will stick with them forever. In the email written by Sergeant John McCary, he explains, “Many servicemen and women have become overwhelmed by the unrelenting strain of living in a combat zone”. The effect of always being alert and faced with tough situations takes a large impact of the soldier's mind and may lead to long term issues down the road such as PTSD. They don’t just sacrifice their lives but they also sacrifice their emotions. McCary also discusses how war has affected soldiers emotions: “Many of my fellows will cry for no mercy, no compassion. For those responsible, for those whose goal is destruction purely for effect, death only as a message, for whom killing is a means of communication, I cannot promise we, or I, will give pardon”. This show’s how they have sacrificed their emotions as a result of war and how now they are “brainwashed” into only wanting to kill. They also sacrifice their lives as McCary talks about how he’s lost many friends because of the war. “They’ve killed my friends.. It’s nothing new, not really”. After being apart of war and seeing people die, death and killing is all a soldier will think about. The sacrifices soldiers have made during the war will have a huge effect and them and is something they will remember for