Army Integrity Essay

Author Lynda Van Devanter spent one year as a U.S. Army nurse in Viet Nam. In this memoir she talks about that even though nurses who served in Vietnam were not formal combatants they still experienced the same trauma adjusting back to civilian life, long after the war ended. She began the book in the present day, as she still was tormented by night sweats and flashbacks. “Vietnam was the worst time of my life, yet it was also, in many ways, the most important and most intense” (Van Devanter…

Often in the history of war, we forget those who fought it. We remember names of people and days they died, but it often slips our mind that they were people. They had families. They had mothers. They had lives outside of death. Too many people forget that. People also seem keen on forgetting that fight is not all soldiers do. Soldiers love. In 1975, one such soldier was discharged for doing so. In detail, Leonard P. Matlovich, a Vietnam war veteran was a unique case, as he was the first to…

Surprisingly, this film is accurate depicts the environment of colonial New England by including in the film several aspects that were prevalent during the era in which colonial Americans began to act. This is a glance at American Revolutionary War history is re-created in the moderately absorbing story of a Connecticut wife and mother caught between her religious faith, and deep love for her husband. Mary Silliman's War,' directed by Stephen Surjik, is the tale of an 18th century colonial…

Resocialization is adult socialization requiring you to learn new values and social beliefs and replace the old views you had. A circumstance where resocialization would happen,I found in the textbook, would be entering a total institution like in the military . A total institution is institutions in where individuals are cut off from the rest of our society so that they can be controlled and regulated for the purpose of systematically stripping away previous roles and identities in order to…

My responsibility to America is that, I want to wake up with the rights that our veterans had fought for. To have the right to pledge my allegiance to the flag, everyday in school. My responsibilities to America is to keep living with the rights I have, and to know that we’re not under enemy control or dodging bullets on our American soil. To keep living and not to worry a day’s chance when we have to be concern about our rights because, we know that we have many, many men out there to defend…

The Vietnam War lasted from 1954-1943. The United States suffered thousands of deaths and countless injured soldiers. Unless a person is involved in the war, the ability to understand the pain the soldiers suffer is tough. The Things They Carried written by war veteran Tim O’Brien, provides the reader with a taste of war through his fictional stories. O’Brien writes stories dealing with the constant shame that hangs over soldiers heads. Shame is a painful feeling of humiliation or distress…

Are child soldiers victims or perpetrators? To some people it really depends on their origin. If they want to fight and have the feeling to kill, I would consider them perpetrators, if they are forced to kill and don't want to, they are victims. A lot of people are asking this question, should child soldiers be given amnesty? Many might say it's not their fault because they are forced to kill. Others might say it is their fault because they have the choice to do this or not, but what they…

Fucheng Cai Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried is a war novel describing the story as well as the inner psyche of a group of soldiers during and after the Vietnam War. Although this is a war novel, it is neither bloody nor violent. There are no great acts of heroism, senses of torture, or scenes of slaughter. However, while we are drawn in by the author’s story, we find that one of the soldiers, Norman Bowker, is suffering from the pain of being unable to speak about the horrors of war that…

Are under age soldiers the number one problem for children? To begin with, children are taken against their will and forced to be used as soldiers. One wrong move can turn them from innocent children to dangerous soldiers. Child soldiers should not be put on trial for the crimes they commit. Why is this happening? For example, the children are required to serve as soldiers. Due to hunger and poverty, parents have no choice but to have their children become soldiers. A lot of violence and…

Should the movie The patriots be like it was or more accurate.Some might say it was all off and the movie could of been better than what it was. Others could say it was perfectly accurate and could not get any better. The movie was made to inform people about the wars and how life was back during the time of the revolutionary war. The movie The patriots was somewhat historically accurate from Benjamin Martin,Battle of Cowpens and colonel Tavington or the surrender of General Cornwallis In the…