Veterans Against The War By John Carry: An Analysis

September 2, 1945, marked the victorious end to a brutal war, World War II. Some historians argue that this and all other wars had no purpose and should not have been fought. Although there were many tragedies that occurred in this and other wars, there are undoubtedly more positive acts that come from partaking in war than negative ones. The negatives of war may be death and the destruction of cities, which could devastate a country’s economy, but this is expected with any major confrontation in history. War can lead to the correction of social injustices enacted on people; the Civil War ended slavery, and World War II caused an end to the Holocaust. War gives many different social classes equal opportunities, and allows these people to build …show more content…
Unfortunately there are atrocities committed in every war, as readers learned from the article “Veterans Against the War,” written by John Carry. “We learned the meaning of free fire zones, shooting anything that moves, and we watched as America placed a cheapness on the lives of orientals.” While tactics like this and ones similar are a tragedy, they were sometimes needed to destroy the enemy. Not all “innocent civilians” that were killed were really innocent, as readers learned in “Fallen Angels,” when the Vietnamese woman offered one of the GI’s to hold her child that was mined and exploded on impact. This may not have been the case for all of the Vietnamese civilians but soldiers do not always get the opportunity to think things through if they are in a life or death situation. They may only have time to react to the situation at hand and in some cases there were innocents killed. War has also saved millions of innocent civilians. The Jews and other non aryan races that Hitler saw as the scum of the Earth did not deserve to be murdered in the masses, which is why the US and other countries stepped into stop Hitler’s