Army Accountability Essay

the killer walking around, free to do whatever he or she pleases and punishment-free? I don’t think I would treat them differently just because they were at one time forced into combat, or because they are younger. Since they aren't enlisted in the army, shouldn't they be charged with the same punishment as a juvenile delinquent who kills someone? Why should they be granted amnesty? So I have tweaked my statement to this: A child soldier should not be granted amnesty unless the prosecutor is…

The Terrible Beauty of the Forgotten War In The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien’s, use of words to describe his memories of the Vietnam war transform the stories in his novel. O’Brien is able to take images of disturbing horror and turns them into a romanticized vision, that the reader can understand. Because this is a war story, it’s obvious there will be horrible images that O’Brien and his platoon had to experience, but he able to transforms them into beautiful narratives. Throughout the…

The experience of the soldiers of the Vietnam War presents itself within the poems, “Camouflaging the Chimera” by Yusef Koumunyakaa and “A Piece of Sky without Bombs” by Lam Thi My Da. In Koumunyakaa’s poem, the author describes the experience of the American Soldiers as they travelled through the secluded jungles of Vietnam, waiting for the Vietcong to attack. The purpose of this poem is to highlight the experiences of a soldier in Vietnam, rather than just looking in from an outside…

In the novel, The Things They Carried written by author, Tim O’Brien the Vietnam war has a profound effect on the young soldiers who are forced into fighting in it. The war effects each of these characters in different ways and changes their lives and how they see the world forever. Some of these characters survive the war itself but the long lasting effects on them mentally and emotionally, are too much to bear after coming home to a community that they no longer feel they belong in. It…

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 main character in The Red Badge Of Courage is Henry Fleming. Henry thinks that he will become a hero in war and he wants to go to war. By the end of the book, although with many distractions, Henry learns that courage comes in many forms, sometimes it's fighting, but sometimes it is standing up for what you believe. In the beginning Henry's mom tells him that he should not go to war because he is a better use on the family farm, but Henry believes that if he goes to war then he will become…

The majority of critics view The Things they Carried as one of the most honest depictions of the Vietnam War that has ever been written. Very few authors combine writing a vivid description of war with the pure emotion that the soldiers felt during the war as appropriately as O’Brien does. However, despite the clear depiction of war, this novel raises the question, “What is true?”. Through analyzing this novel, it is clear the author believes that the happening-truth of a story is far less…

Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a war story that is put together with many different stories of the main character Tim’s deployment in Vietnam. In the book, the author includes stories of soldiers that ultimately changed their lives. He writes stories of love, loss, and mystery along with multiple other themes. But, the main theme for this book is the soldiers’ fear of showing signs of weakness. The soldiers do not want people to see them as weak including: their friends, family, and…

Imagery plays a prominent role in this novel. The utilization of imagery is used to establish two major things. One, it provides the reader with a better perception on the situation and create and illusion as if the reader is actually there. In addition, the imagery is used to demonstrate how Ishmael's mentality and morals are altered by war all through the novel. Towards the end of the novel, Beah reminisces much of what he had witnessed and endured in the war, which left him in a daze. At one…

Federal band started to play “Home, Sweet Home” within minutes, a Southern band joined in, and the bands played together in what was a unique expression of mutual longing for home and family” (New Year's). Some soldiers that enlisted in the Union army applied because the “Boston Transcript publicly announced that a famous band would be attached to some particular regiment” (The Civil War Bands). Even before the war, music was used for…