Key issue essay In 1968 on the 9th of March US soldiers from ‘c’ company entered hamlets in Quang Ngai on a search and destroy mission. The hamlets and My Lai were known as the Vietcong territory(Vietnamese army). US soldiers lost all control and killed 300-400 civilians including; men, women and children. 70 of these civilians were mown down with automatic fire once herded into a ditch. Over a year the US army covered up their massacre and 13 soldiers were charged with war crimes against humanity.
But that presumption couldn’t have been further from the truth. Aggressive Training In Fort Benning: Charlie Company arrived in Vietnam in December 1967, from their training camp in Fort Benning, Georgia. It was here were the men that made up Charlie Company undertook the change from civilian to soldier. They were taught to kill. They were ordered to kill dummies with bullets, as well as the bayonet.
The war is pretty hard not a lot of people know what Chris Kyle has gone through from losing him friends and platoon to killing terrorists to protect his fellow troops. That doesn’t sound like an easy thing to go through but to be in the marines that is one thing you must mentally prepare your self for what you will experience in the war. Chris Kyle describes the terrorists in this book as being “Savages” because of the things they where doing in order to win the war against the United States. He also had the record of the farthest sniper kill in the world. Which to me is pretty difficult to shot and kill your target on the spot.
Afterwards Chris’ team was given the job of helping marines clear a town in Baghdad, where his chief gave him his signature rifle, a bolt action .300 Winchester Magnum, with which he could take out targets from up to 1,800 yards. During his career, Chris fought with the Polish GROM, the special air service, and the U.S. Marines. The Government still labels the details on most of his missions as “Classified” but his job was basically to go behind enemy lines alone, undetected, attain an overwatch position and watch the backs of other soldiers as they moved in. On another occasion, Kyle took out a man who had an RPG aimed at a U.S. Army Humvee convoy from 1.2 miles away with one shot. Chris retired at 35 in 2009 and wrote the book “American Sniper” which is an autobiography.
His remains have never been found. It is less well-known that the SAS (the Special Air Service Regiment), with whom Nairac had been co-located, although he was not a member of that regiment, paid a return visit to the Three Steps Inn a matter of weeks after Nairac’s murder. Unlike Nairac, they took every precaution before moving in. Six SAS men lay in a hedge bottom a few yards from the Three Steps Inn wearing combat fatigues and black camouflage face paint. Each one carried an automatic pistol, a Heckler-Koch sub-machine gun, a few flash-bang grenades, a jemmy to break windows and a car-jack to spread door-jambs.
When a person considers war and the deaths that take place during the violent acts that are committed, soldiers killing enemy soldiers are the certain fatalities that first come to mind. Yet, with further reflection, one should stumble upon the horrible truth that many more civilians can be killed during war then soldiers. In Paul Woodruff’s essay, “Justification or Excuse: Saving Soldiers at the Expense of Civilians”, he explores the reasons why some soldiers would find it “morally comfortable” to kill harmless civilians. Woodruff investigates and explains the significant differences between justification and excuse, two principles that can help clarify why so many civilians are killed during wars. According to Woodruff, justification makes an action right and an excuse only reduces the blame for an action that is wrong.
However, the heroic battles and stories he had hoped for turned out to be a figment of his imagination; Vietnam was the ugliest war the United States has ever encountered. The book starts off with Caputo’s decision to join the marines and become an officer. He goes through military school, and in the spring of 1965 he landed in Danang, Vietnam. Most of the book covers his three year enlistment which started in 1964 and ended in 1967 when he was discharged from military service. He talks about the struggles he went through during the war
On December 1, 1967, Charlie Company heads to Vietnam after advanced training at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. Charlie Company was led by the well – known and well respected Captain Ernest L. Medina, also known as “Mad Dog” from his high expectations and his quick temper when these expectations were not met. William Calley was the Lieutenant of Charlie Company’s 1st Platoon. He was described as a weak leader who struggled with basic leadership and was often ridiculed and belittled by Medina, who called Calley “Sweetheart.” (My Lai: A Brief History with Documents, page 13). When Charlie Company arrived in Quang Ngai Province, Vietnam, on December 3, 1967, they establish an 11th Brigade fire base at landing zone Carrington in the southern Quang Ngai Province.
O’Flaherty best illustrates the pandemonium of a war through the climatic ending of the story. When the sniper discovers he has killed his brother. The objectification of combatants and civilians is clearly showed in O’Flaherty’s story about
A comparison between A Tell-Tale Heart and American Psycho Introduction A Tell-Tale heart is about a man and his urge to kill another man. American Psycho is about a man and his urge to kill other people. The two protagonists are both insane and dealing with a comprehensive problem. There is one slight distinction between them; Patrick Bateman's victims are in plural, the narrator in A Tell-Tale Heart's victim is in singular. Bateman kills people for his own satisfaction, the nameless narrator does it because of his urge to get rid of an eye.