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The key points of this video were that family and close friends often feel some responsibility for the death of their loved one after a completed attempt and that combat can have lasting effects on an individual that need professional attention. Though no research was presented in this video, I found it interesting that one of Clay's connections through the VA actually noted that he has seen hundreds of individuals that struggle like Clay did. One thing that I disagreed with and was concerned…

Give Child Soldiers the Childhood They Deserve Tens of thousands of children are being abducted in the night going who knows where. They will, soon enough, show up on the battlelines. A child soldier is any child under the age of 18 who is recruited or kidnapped by a group and used as fighters, suicide bombers, human shields, messengers, or spies. These children are being taken from their families and forced to fight and serve in the military against their will. They will do what their…

The Man I Killed, Field Trip, and The Lives of the Dead were all important chapters. These chapters portrayed the author’s, Tim O’Brien, true feelings about life, death, and war; and how they all correlate with each other. Through sharing his experience of killing a man, taking a field trip to revisit a fallen soldier, and realizing that people live after they die, the novel’s message transforms into something completely different. Tim O’Brien goes from a story about war to a story about the…

Martin is a fictional character who is based off of Francis Marion. Francis Marion in some ways is different from Benjamin Martin. However in some aspects they are the same. For example, Benjamin Martin and Francis Marion participated in the British army. But, they also differ because Francis Marion raped and forced himself upon his slaves. That is very different from the way Benjamin Martin treated his slaves. In the movie he treated them as “equals” and a family. He was kind to them. And the…

Times have been hard at home since the start of the war that I have begun a journal. In hopes to boost my spirits during this eerie period. “Ration cards were issued” (WWI Food Shortages) this past month to help with war efforts. On my way to the slaughterhouse where I picked up mother’s rations for the week I could not escape from the signs. Propaganda mounted the walls of every street side building trying to persuade young men to enter the war. Smothered all over the signs with the phrase…

O’Briens use of imagery is a key element in his passage. My first example is “There were many bodies, real bodies with real faces, but I was young then and I was afraid to look. And now, twenty years later, I”m left with faceless responsibility and faceless grief” he used the young men to represent the fearless Vietnam soldiers that have died. Thousands of soldiers were dead and weren’t able to be identified because they were burned by napalm or they were buried by the American soldiers.…

In the article living and Fitting Alongside Men, and Fitting In was by Steven Lee Myers, he mention about the negative and positive outcome of women that are joined in the military. The article gives information on the current status of women that are in the military. Also, the article describes how women that are in the military have their own living quarter for housing units. That article talks about sex and how it might end America military prowess. However, it talks about how now there are…

Advancements in military technology help our troops and many civilians. advancements in military technology range from advancements in the medical field to advancements in the current weapons and improvements in old weapons. These advancements in medicine benefit our veterans and help save lives on the battlefield and can help save many others. The Advancements in weapons help reduce collateral damage and civilian casualties by making the weapons more precise. An example of this is in World War…

“The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.” These were the words of Roger Moore, a famous actor when talking about child soldiers. Unfortunately, we still see this same situation happening all around the world. Many children are being used as soldiers to fight in wars in many different places. The people who recruit them think it can give them a higher advantage since the enemy would think…

In fact, have you ever watched a movie and you thought it was based on a true story but it’s really not. I will tell you about the history of The Patriot movie. If I didn’t do no background check and i saw this movie i would have understood this to the t. There were no parts in the movie where i was confused on or i didn’t really understand it because i watched closely and most of the time i knew what was going on. My essay in going to be about Benjamin Martin, and the Cowpens Battle,and the…