Young men who had never fought in a war possessed idealism full of illusions by following John F. Kennedy’s statement, “Ask what you can do for your country, not what your country can do for you.” The proud young military men believed that the Viet Cong could be swiftly conquered only to come to awareness these guerrillas were a deadly, persistent enemy who were willing to sustain continual casualties, while the U.S. government became just as responsible for inflicting tremendous casualties physically and morally during the war. Young American men went to Vietnam
War what a small word, but with a lot of meaning billions of words to describe War it brings fear, anger, pain, sacrifice , and many more stuff to human beings.. Some go to war not knowing what their fighting for they go fight get killed or come out all traumatized. Few become legends heroes that’s why theirs a little medal that brings so much pride in a solider called the medal of honor and no its not a video game .This man mans story is a dream come true from working in the fields getting paid a dollar a day trying to feed his eleven brother a sisters to making movies living the good life His name Audie Murphy. Murphy was the sixth in his family out 12 brothers and sisters. He dropped out of school in the 8th grade to work picking cotton for a dollar a day at in any farm that would hire him to help out his parents.
Going against his orders from Sgt. Bradley Larson, Carter ran through a hail of bullets to retrieve Mace and get him back to the Humvee for treatment. That is one part of the Warrior Ethos, “I will never leave a fallen comrade”. Going against his orders, he risked his own life to be able to save a fellow comrade. With intense fighting for 12 hours, their ammo dwindling, and unable to communicate with anyone, they still kept fighting they had the opportunity to get to a radio to call for support.
The legacy of the Tuskegee Airmen is a well known historical story in my household because I have a Great Great Uncle that was a Tuskegee Airman. The movie Red Tails is an action filled storyline about a squadron of African American pilots serving their country despite segregation in our US Military during World War II. The film director Anthony Hemingway will have you sitting on the edge of your seat throughout the movie intensely drawn in and leaving you wanting more at the end of the movie. You have a great sense of an un-ended storyline when the credits roll. The movie Red Tails is a 20th Century Fox Film production, Executive Produced by George Lucus and Lucasfilms, staring Terrence Howard as Colonel A.J.
Philip Caputo was born in Westchester, an urban community in northern Illinois that constantly had him yearning for an adventure. In 1960, John F. Kennedy was the president and Caputo was ready to ask what he could do for his country. At age twenty-four, he decided to quit the country life and join the marines. He had heard the gallant stories of battles fought in years past and was looking for the same glamorous war stories he could tell of himself. 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.
Notice that Sarty has no real sense of his father's outrage. He sees his father's anger, but he cannot understand it or from where it comes. Sarty was not alive during or before the war, so his only frame of reference is his ten years in this sharecropping family. Sarty lives with his father, his mother, an aunt, two sisters, and a brother. Sarty is the only member of the family to truly act on his own conscience, and ultimately this separates him from the rest of the family.
Tim O’Brien uses irony in his short story “Where have you gone, charming Billy?” The story set in Viet Nam during the war, revolves around a young man on his first day in country. He is so frightened because the situations all are so new. He cannot forget what he saw earlier when “Billy Boy was…scared to death in action” (736). The irony surprises us because Billy Boy was supposed to be a tough soldier who would survive anything. He does not because his fear causes a heart attack.
Patrick O’Rourke ENG 101 - M & W 4:00 – 5:15 “A Serviceman’s Story” Few things on the earth are more terrible than war, seeing families and communities torn apart for reasons that aren’t always clear. It takes a certain kind of person to have the bravery to volunteer to be a soldier in one of the most infamous conflicts in American history, the Vietnam War. That is why I chose to interview a close friend of my grandfather – Les Herman. While my grandfather was not in the war, he has heard many stories from Les over the years and advised me that he would be an interesting person to interview. He was not wrong in that respect, Les is a great man that has led an eventful life.
This death hit these soldiers hardest in the gut because Restrepo happened to be a friend to everyone. Restrepo was shot in the neck, a wound that a medic could have easily fixed. He tried to tell the soldiers how to operate on the wound by walking them through it, but it was hard with a wounded neck, and no other doctor around to help. This event impacted the soldiers a lot because they had a chance to save a close friend, but couldn’t. A feeling like this to some people can only be imagined.
After hearing this Henry was angry with himself for running away. “He turned away amazed and angry.” (Crane, 47) Henry then decided that he could not return to his regiment because they would hate him for running away from the battle, so he ran off into the woods. He came across a regiment of all wounded men and joined them. While marching with the wounded regiment he felt out of place because he did not have any wound. “He wished that he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage.” (Crane, 57) As he was marching with the wounded regiment he found his friend Jim, who was wounded badly on his side.