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.
Douglas Haig was leading the British, and was a very stubborn leader. Haig’s tactics were for the British to simply walk over to the German trenches. After the first day there were 60 000 casualties. Haig being the stubborn leader that he was did not change the tactics at all after losing all these men. Other then the fact that the British had an awful tactic, they did not have the right weaponry.
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.
Although the Army had been in these parts of Iraq before the Marines were, the grunts, ground soldiers, of the Marines knew that the Army didn’t do their job and that they would now have to clear the area of all Mujahideen themselves. The Mujahideen are a global terrorist organization that occupies many parts of the Middle East, and the main group of people America was fighting against along with the Al Qaeda. As these soldiers have as much fun as they can and develop a brotherhood with each other, they also experience many tragedies and losses as many of their fellow Marines lose their lives and limbs while defending
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.
And both of them were screaming out there and I thought to myself you know I wanted to go out there and help them, but I knew if I did I'd get shot. So I just laid there and I'd say within 3 or 4 minutes both of them died” (Stories). These type of frightening events happened at any second throughout D-Day. Every soldier would just lay quietly and pray they would stay alive. The soldiers were courageous men who put themselves in a great amount of danger just for freedom from Germany.
With each new mountain we cross another land lies waiting for us to conquer. So far every new “country” this word I learned from an older solider, we find it falls due to the might and cunning of our generals much loot has been plundered and many fortresses lay in ruin by our fell hands, but now I feel as though the teachings of Buddha has been lost to me forever for each new land I cross the more lives I have taken many of the men do not feel this pain they live only for the next day the next battle or there inevitable death how can men live like this I do not
Haig also devoted the rest of his life to the care and welfare to the Royal British Legion. This service is hardly a task that somebody uncaring would undertake. This is why some do not believe him to be the Butcher of the Somme. Finally, there are many who would argue that Field Marshal Douglas Haig was infact a heartless and stubborn leader who refused to listen to the advice given to him by other generals and therefore was responsible for the enormous death rate amongst the soldiers. Source 4 is a piece of text written by Haig in June 1916, just before the battle of the Somme began; “The nation must be taught to bear losses.
This war is infamous for its long artillery bombardment that eliminated any surprise but failed to destroy the German barbed wire. Many people call it the ‘bloodiest day in British military history’ but was it a complete disaster? When the battle began, the British army believed no man or barbed wire could have survived 1,750,000 shells being fired. However, as the British troops went forward in long lines, they were mown down by German machine guns that British artillery had failed to suppress. Even when this plan kept on failing, the commander-in-chief, Douglas Haig, refused to change his plan, which is what made the start of
Also, every war after the next gets more modernized with weapons that cause more harm and damage than the war before. Later on after the Egyptians, wars became so gory and bloody, who wouldn’t be scarred after seeing someone head explode. A historian named Herodotus wrote that the captain of the Spartans, as we all know named Leonidas, supposedly didn’t let his soldiers fight in a battle because they were psychologically spent from previous battles and he said he couldn’t see no heart to fight. These soldiers are not veterans yet, they are still in battle. The symptoms of PTSD start to form during the war such as home sickness, nausea, insomnia, and many more.