This category details many of the horrible experiences our soldiers had to experience in the First World War. Game: This is a choose-your-own-adventure style game that attempts to recreate the experience of trench warfare. 2008 marks the 90th anniversary of the Armistice that ended the First World War. Many people today are unable to tell you when exactly the Armistice was signed, and it is growing increasingly unlikely that one would ever hear a first-hand account of WWI experiences. For most of my peers, history class and dry textbooks are their sole point of contact with the Great War.
To truly understand what I live with, my demons of torture I need to explain what I go through daily. Many people who have day to day contact with me aren’t even aware that I deal with PTSD. In fact many of those people aren’t even aware that I am a combat veteran. I do not broadcast that particular information because I don’t think of myself as a hero. I went into combat as a naïve 20 year old and came out of combat a little damaged.
Single parents make up 7.8 percent of the entire military. (Powers, 2010) Being a single parent in the military does not make you exempt from duties that require you to be gone for long periods. As recent as February of this year, a single mother was discharge from the army because she had no one to care for her son. The military has a program set up called the family care plan, which ensures proper care of your child (ren) or other dependents while you are away on deployment or other duties. As the military continues to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq, we continue to hear of single parents that failed to deploy because of childcare.
The Civil War nearly ripped apart our nation and many lives were lost in the process. Lincoln states that Gettysburg will be a final resting place for all the soldiers who have died on this ground. He says that we cannot dedicate nor consecrate the ground because the soldiers who lie there hold a power far beyond what we can add or detract. This sentence really shows the importance of this battle and how these men should be honored and buried here as a final resting place. Lincoln then shortly after says that we still have a great task ahead of us even though the Civil War is now over.
Nothing should be sugar coded because many lives were lost and many individuals suffered a great deal and everyone should understand why. In McCrae’s poem “In Flanders Field” he explains life before and after war. There was once a time when they experience the feeling of love and the enjoyment of life, but now they lay dead looking back at the life they had to give up to fight in war. Those who have died have passed the torch to the next generation of soldiers. This proved that the peace treaty didn’t solve the problem and a new war would occur.
From time to time I hear the saying ’‘You have to die in order to protect your life.’’ There is no sense in that what so ever. If you die to protect your life you aren’t alive anymore so how did you protect your life? Nobody says ’’I will spend all my money in order to save my money.’’ Those sayings pretty much have the same logics to me. If I were to guess, I would guess that every soldier that was fighting for his county and had a near death experience was praying and hoping that he would come out of this alive while he was lying there and dying. Joe Bonham was a soldier who almost lost his life fighting for his country.
Playing, caressing her, or just sitting by her side. But those six months went so fast; they were not enough to enjoy the time I wasted in other things while she was healthy. The only thing I did properly was saying goodbye, but that does not mean that her death hurt me less. I will never forget December 3th when my father called me during classes to inform me that Wanda had passed away. My
Steve Pelon Clint Hale 101 English Composition (03) 14 January 2012 Narrative Topic Formation: The Last Days Spent With My Father The day of September 3, 2010, my father went ill and near death. No one could give or define a proper diagnosis; playing phone tree with family and doctors was failing fast. Questions asked continued to go unanswered, how did this happen, what was the cause, and most importantly what would be the outcome? His blood was being poisoned by something within his own body. What was attempting to take his life?
I never caught a break. I contemplated suicide many times. I would have been completely fine with taking my own life, but how selfish would that have been of me? My family is the most important thing in the world to me, and I would never put them through something like that. I tolerated the bulling every day until one day, in my senior year, Dick didn't show up to school for a whole week.
In that moment I still didn’t believe her. It took me a few months to realize that my big sister wasn’t coming back and that I would never see her or hear from her again. Then 6 years later, there was a twist in my life. My brother’s dad decided to give me Robin’s real sister’s phone number. I had so many feelings running through me at one time.