Meritorious Service Medal

minefield. Art and Literature created by veterans to reduce the effects of PTSD ultimately links, to multiple aspects of the book The Things They Carried. The mask created by a US Army Flight Medic relates to Norman Bowker from The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. The left half of the face covered with an American flag and in the eye a reflection of a formal military photograph. The right half of the mask is a skull with the sentence, “I have destroyed my life and myself, so that others may live” inscribed on the fractured jaw. This relates to Norman Bowker because on one side, he did his patriotic duty for his country. “Norman Bowker might then have listed the seven medals he did win: the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, the Good Conduct Medal, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart” (135). This illustrates the picture of a good soldier who served his country valiantly, which is the Norman Bowker most people see. Underneath this heroic soldier, there is allot of hurt and guilt. During an intense mortar pounding, Norman Bowker let his friend Kiowa die “He released Kiowa’s boot and watched it slide away” (143). Kiowa was pulled down by the mud along with the person that Norman used to be. He was never his old self after this and it haunted him until “three years later hanged himself in the locker room of a YMCA” (149). After his deployment, Norman never adjusted back to normal life. The death in his past and…

He ended up with an injured leg and in a hospital in Milan and was rewarded a silver medal for his bravery, but this meant his career was in the military was over. In the short story, In Another Country, the American soldier in the story, who is also the narrator and Ernest Hemingway have almost identical aspects. The American soldier is in the hospital in Milan for a leg injury; he cannot bend his knee. He proceeds to talk about how he received a medal saying “…were written in very beautiful…

Not all Medals are made of Metal An icy and bitter mist surrounded me. The sun had secreted behind piles of looming clouds, while droplets of water dispensed from the sky. The track bore a vast expanse of puddles, and runners plunged their way through them. I was sitting in the dewy grass underneath the canopy of our tent. Rain trickled down the stadium steps as I heard the booming announcer eagerly bellow, “Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the 2016 State Track and Field Meet.” My heart began to…

major command a meeting was called and we were told “Only Colonels, Lieutenant Colonels, and Sergeant Majors will receive Bronze stars (BS), Majors, Captains, and Lieutenant’s will receive Meritorious Service Medals (MSM) and all others the Army Commendation Medal (ARCOM).” This was a true disappointment to me as well as other enlisted personnel. It was decided what type and degree of award Soldiers would receive before they could start the mission, and show what they were capable of as…

again people will remember you for something. Like for example we had this big singing thing at my last high school every year called “Celebration”. It’s exactly what it sounds like, the whole school sings for a few hours. There’s not even cake, it wasn’t much of a celebration by my standards. Anyway, I was fortunate enough to be chosen to lead the school in this. It was fantastic I got to stand up in front of my entire school and their parents and sing songs I absolutely and whole heartedly…

of military families and will follow the conflicts and struggle these families faced when their service members returned home from deployments to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. These deployments varied in length depending on which branch of the military the service member is enlisted in. The average length of a deployment is between 9 and 15 months. This is a long time period for families to be away from their loved one. When the service member left, the remaining parent was now required…

For meritorious service while serving as the Senior Enlisted Advisor at U.S. Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station Far East Detachment Diego Garcia from January 2015 to March 2016. Senior Chief Robinson consistently demonstrated leadership and initiative in the performance of her duties. Her ability to perform in an extremely isolated, arduous, and dynamic environment are directly reflected in the high level of success provided to Navy, Joint and Coalition forces conducting Overseas…

Only one solitary thought remained in her mind. He is watching…. She did not dare to look back, she knew that whatever happened it was in his hands. - What she didn't know, is that in the next 10 seconds she would destroy the Junior World record by a margin of 3.41 seconds to become the youngest American to qualify for an Olympic Game. Most importantly her father would be watching. It all began years ago when her father developed dementia. Her one and only father. He had supported her through…

realize we are doing it sometimes. Keywords: counterfactual thinking, athletes, personality, Olympic medalists, Introduction Literature Reviews Counterfactual thinking and Olympic medalists is one of the most well known studies on this theory. In this article we can often see that those in second place have more counterfactual thoughts than those in third place. “To the silver medalist, the most vivid counterfactual thoughts are often focused on nearly winning the gold. Second place is only…

The Theme of Handmaid’s Tale Living a life without meaning is much akin to an ocean containing no water, all humans pursue their own particular meaning, and moments come when meaning can be brought closer in reach. The winds of time flow without a halt, opportunities to gain a better life scarcely leak out and sometimes one is left stranded in the dark. Time is a component quantity which plays a role in the sequence of events, and plays a significant role in providing opportunities for…