“War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.” This is a quote from William Tecumseh Sherman,civil war soldier, that flew through the ranks and became general. A general of war, stating that war is cruel nothing else. William experiencing war must have experienced PTSD, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder . If war was cruel in the civil war, the past wars have been doing some work on our loyal soldiers. Take the example of the Vietnam war where 9,087,000 military personnel were sent to the war, and 13,630,50 returned with PTSD according to the US Department of Veteran Affairs percentage. According to the US Department of Veteran Affairs percentage about 14 million veterans are always thinking they’re in
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From the words of our general,”I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” Seeing war and surviving to return home is just living in hell,so why have it in the first place. Is it the United States job to stop the world from going into chaos? The United States can help the world from bad people without ruining lives with a double edge sword. The relationship of countries is the most important in preventing all out war. The reason World War two even happened was because Germany was experiencing heavy economic problems and had lost hope. The unemployed rate in Germany was exponentially increasing and no nation helped it because of the war. If a nation helped Germany instead of blaming the whole war on Germany, their economic and cultural values would’ve increased instead of looking towards Hitler’s ideals that lead to the second world war. Resource wars, primarily oil, are a deficient on the military budget. Oil in other countries are easier to buy from instead of enslaving the country and “watching” how a
From the words of our general,”I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” Seeing war and surviving to return home is just living in hell,so why have it in the first place. Is it the United States job to stop the world from going into chaos? The United States can help the world from bad people without ruining lives with a double edge sword. The relationship of countries is the most important in preventing all out war. The reason World War two even happened was because Germany was experiencing heavy economic problems and had lost hope. The unemployed rate in Germany was exponentially increasing and no nation helped it because of the war. If a nation helped Germany instead of blaming the whole war on Germany, their economic and cultural values would’ve increased instead of looking towards Hitler’s ideals that lead to the second world war. Resource wars, primarily oil, are a deficient on the military budget. Oil in other countries are easier to buy from instead of enslaving the country and “watching” how a