Black Guerrilla Family

Wars of any kind can not only affect the physical state of soldiers but they also greatly affect their emotional state. The Vietnam War was no exception and it is seen many times throughout the The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien how the events of the war change the character’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. As the novel progresses and more of the stories are told, it is seen how damaging the war is to characters such as Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell, and Rat Kiley. Each of these characters…

The Things They Carried, by Tim O’Brien, is a story about a group of soldiers in the Vietnam War. One of the characters by the name of Kiowa ends up dying in a field of sewage. While First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross believes it is his fault, a young soldier that Kiowa had grown close to also believes it is his fault as well. Their thoughts are both right, First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross and the young soldier are the ones to truly blame for Kiowa’s death. While neither one of them meant to get…

“Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away”; says political leader Ismail Haniyeh. Author of a New York Times Bestseller The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien retells his and other soldier’s stories of fighting in the Vietnam War. O’Brien struggles with the feelings of responsibility, guilt, and anger along the way. Tim O’Brien wants readers to understand the truths of war by…

The air was electric, waiting for a reaction to the obvious. They were all there as promised. Lining the streets, crawling through cracks in the pavement, like dandelions – bold and unappealing. They were poised, minds set in protest. It was the war that was why they were all there. To stand against the waves of pain evaporating off the country’s decisions. Vietnam. That was their reason, a protest, standing against war and pain. Against all the suffering that comes with combat. So they all…

We tell stories to remember the past and to not repeat our mistakes in the future. The Vietnam war was a very important part of our history. Also we tell stories based on events that happened in our own lives. Oliver Stone the writer of Platoon experienced the Vietnam war first hand. Similar to Tim O’Brien who wrote the things they carried. He also experienced the war. Both writers wrote about their experiences from their own point of view. The way Tim O’Brien wrote the things they carried…

Maya Ying Lin was a twenty-one-year-old attending college at Yale studying architecture. This young woman entered her idea for the memorial as a school project. That very same project was the winner of the Vietnam War memorial contest. Brent Ashabranner wrote “Always to Remember: The Vision of Maya Ying Lin”, which is about the Vietnam War memorial contest. The author, Ashabranner chose “Always to Remember” for the first part of the title so that we would always remember the war and the…

The book We Are Soldiers Still by Lt. Gen. Harold Moore and Joseph Galloway connects to the film American Sniper by Clint Eastwood. For example in We are Soldiers Still on page 1 it talks about during the war in Vietnam it was a gruesome and terrifying war and how no one was your friend even if they were a local in Vietnam. In American Sniper this guy named Chris Kyle went to a war over in Iraq to be a sniper for Navy Seals and to protect his comrades and the marines who were checking houses…

paintings have many similarities and differences. Guernica has people that appear to be dead or in a lot of despair. The people also appear to be innocent, because no weapons are present in the artwork besides a broken sword. The paintings is also in black and white which gives the painting…

I believe that SOF using F3EAD is better suited to the targeting process while deployed and in a current OPTEMPO. This is due to our composition, mission, and organic staffing process. It is not a better process than D3A, it is a different process that allows SOF to use their tactical level fusion of intelligence and operation to expedite their targeting process. Since SOFs composition and organization is different, our commanders trust this process to ODAs that are highly trained, mature, and…

Insurgency, as defined by author Seth Jones, is “a political military campaign by non-state actors who seek to overthrow a government or secede from a country through the use of unconventional—and sometimes conventional—military strategies.” There are two distinct instances of insurgency in the Middle East that aptly convey this definition: Iraq and Afghanistan. Comparatively these to cases are quite similar in motivation and success. It is the act of counter-insurgency by outside forces that…