We Were Soldiers

For soldiers life in the trenches was unbearable. Factory workers were constantly forced to work under harsh conditions and in dangerous situations. Refugees who tried escaping the terrors of war in their homelands were faced with even more challenges when trying to find safety in new countries. Women who were not in factories could find jobs as nurses. Those who stayed home found it difficult to provide for their families as food and other resources were scarce. Food and resources that were…

horrors of war, and the effects war has on the soldiers. War is hard to understand by those who have not experienced it. “Yet paradoxically, we are greater removed from the fighting now than we were then. That’s because there’s no draft, no sense that every young man is called upon to make a stand… Instead the burden is borne by a few--volunteers and their families” (Pitts). People are untouched by these wars now more than ever because…

author showed how the soldiers were forced to adapt to the reality of the war. The war robs men of their previous selves by ripping away everything that they once were. A perfect example of this is when Paul says “We are not youth any longer...We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces” (Remarque 87). Before the war they were youthfull teenagers, but after all the death and despair, that is no longer true. The men that they once were has been…

With the threat from Mainland China, Taiwan needs more professional soldiers to protect our homeland. Therefore, the soldiering policy has been transformed from conscription to recruiting system since 2006. As a result, how to attract the young people to join the Army is officer’s primary mission. However, the results of recruiting system didn’t hit the target that manpower of ground force requires 25,000 soldiers in 2013, and only 12,000 people are willing to join the Army. Thus, the government…

human nature. We wake up, get dressed, and carry on our day with whatever we have planned. What if your routine consisted of grabbing a glock or an Arquebus and aiming at another human being and pulling the trigger? Wake up, fight, kill, survive, sleep. That routine is something child soldiers undergo every day of their lives. Kill or be killed, they say. The disputation of child soldiers has been going on for years and years. On one side of the debate, people insist the children were under…

A Soldiers Sacrifice in “They” and “Disabled” In Siegfried Sassoon’s “They” and Wilfred Owens “Disabled”, both poems describe the physical and emotional trauma that soldiers experienced in the trenches and on the battlefield. Those left on the home front did not understand the circumstances that the soldiers were under and were shocked when their boys came home suffering from “shell shock” and PTSD. “Social reactions to shell shock victims varied from sympathy or anger at the war to confusion…

known as the backbone of the United States Army, a phrase coined by Rudyard Kipling. As we know the Non-Commissioned Army in todays military is but a mere remnant of what the NCO original was. The Non-Commissioned Officer existed during the European Hundred Years’ War, who at the time, were almost all upper ranks of European society, surprisingly. At the time, though, there was almost no interaction between soldiers and officers, so the Non-Commissioned Officer served as the link between the…

nails. My enlistment is coming up rapidly, however I do not plan on quitting until we get our freedom. “Quitting” is another way of stating that you are not re-enlisting. For all my heart’s desire, I will re-enlist for because freedom, movement in rank, and the fact that healthy men are needed are compelling me to. Life in Valley Forge is tough. Several of us are convicts and farmers instead of being soldiers. We have no training for combat in war, a significant difference from the British army.…

1. In the second half of All Quiet on the Western Front, the soldiers return to the front after rumours of an attack. They are caught under heavy fire and their company of 150 men is reduced to only 32. Moreover, one of Paul’s friends, Haie Westhus, is killed after being stabbed during the attack. Paul is given a seventeen day vacation and upon his return home, he discovers that his mother has been diagnosed with cancer. He returns to the front once again where he is informed that they will be…

We have all heard and said “I am an expert and I am a professional” and “No one is more professional than I”, but how do these words translate into the Army and into action? Being a professional is the most important aspect of todays Army. The Army has to uphold the Constitution and the service and protection of the American people. This task is not taken lightly and most be elaborated on through knowledge of the word and how it applies to the Army, the culture of a professional Army, and the…