In paragraph two, when Hanks talks about the change that he goes through and wondering if his wife will even recognize him, he uses a much more depressed state of parallelism. The big mystery that he is in almost plays as a two-faced role, separating his battle experiences from his personal life back home. In the same paragraph, there is also a small quantity of amplification. Hanks says,”But over here it’s a big, a big mystery.” This amplification amplifies the fact that what these men are going through is indeed a life-altering ordeal. When he is talking about his big mystery, he is referring to his dedication to the war.
Wade Berrigan 5-26-07 The Moral Ambiguity of War In the novel Fallen Angels, by Walter Dean Meyers, shows us many examples of soldiers struggling between making morale choices or staying alive. New soldiers look at other soldiers who have been in the war for a while as if they are sick soulless creatures killing everything in their way. Later we find these same characters that are doing the questioning doing the same thing. For example Perry wonders to himself how someone can die in front of them and no one remember it the following day. This shows his morals are still intact.
Generals die in bed —— The soldiers are heroes,do you agree? Generals Die in Bed by Charles Yale Harrison is a novel of the Great War, which was first published in 1930. It is a first-person narrative by an unnamed 18-year-old Canadian soldier about his war experiences from the time he leaves Montreal to the battle of Amiens. In this novel, the soldiers’appearance described by him is also completely different from what we used to think which are brave warriors,instead，they are extremely unbearable as people do not except and certainly they are far away from the standard of hero—brave,strong,justice,tough,and takes responsibilities. Firstly,they are not heroes because most of them are still very young and Inexperienced.America did not get involved in WWI,but some young American were still willing to join the war,so they just joined the Canadian army to make this.In addition,with some irresponsible propaganda,the war was described like a big adventure which attracted numerous young people to join in,they thought it would be very fun and cool to join the army and fight
Also, rookies were warned on their first day to not look over the parapet of the trench into” No Man’s Land”, because many men died on their first in the trenches from a precisely aimed sniper’s bullet. It has been estimated that more than one third of Allied casualties on the Western Front happened in the trenches. Aside from injuries, disease worked a heavy
Over the last several years, wait time and corruption inside of the Veterans Affairs Health Care administration have lead to massive delays, with some patients never even being seen. In some of the worse cases, such delays have resulted in death. One such example is in Phoenix, where “40 veterans died while waiting to see a doctor, 1700 were confirmed to be on a secret waiting list, and others?f average wait times were almost 4 months. Yet the hospital administrator was paid a $9,000 bonus for her 'quality outcomes'.”(Vliet 34). The source of the issue is that there are too many veterans needing medical assistance and not enough resources to manage the demand in a timely manner, which causes overcrowding in Veteran medical centers country wide.
November 2, 1916 My Dearest Virginia, Writing this letter to you is a great challenge to me, as I no longer have 5 fingers on my right hand. Just a few weeks ago I contracted a deadly skin infection and 3 of my fingers and 4 of my toes had to be amputated or I would have died a painful death. The conditions here in the trenches are getting tougher and tougher as the cold winter is approaching. The rats and lice have also become worse of a problem and I am constantly itching. I am currently on the front line and the smell of rotting flesh is unbearable, there are corpses of our own men and also those of the enemy lying not 30 feet from our trench but it is far too dangerous to go and retrieve them.
This disease is so dangerous for the children, so there are a lot of children who pass away or in danger. My friend's cousin is one of the patients. The rubella epidemic has came over my city in the last two months. It has become more and more dangerous because of the changing of this kind of virus in children's body. A lot of children have to go to the hospital after being sick with a fourty degree fever for a long time.
“For centuries we have seen casualties of war; soldiers who have had various physical injuries and scars that last a lifetime (Stan Tian).” This can tear a soldier’s life apart and even his family and that’s a huge struggle that some veterans must go through every day, it’s not just physical injuries but mental illnesses as well. “Yet until the 20th century little was known about the emotional effects of war on soldiers and it wasn't until soldiers were studied psychologically that we began to understand what had happened to them” ( Stan Tian). Tian explains how war can affect you and he gives a lot of information on the topic of physical and mental disabilities in regards to combat. Stan Tian is a psychologist and studies mental health and helps people cope with and understand about the effects of war such as PTSD. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a psychiatric disorder in which someone experiences something that is life threatening, a serious accident, terrorist attack, sexual assault, etc.
The Silent Damages of War Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Combat Stress Disorder Deborah Briscoe American Military University Abstract Battle sometimes carries with it scars that go deeper than the naked eye. It is at times these invisible wounds cause the most damage. Many have fought hard to understand and name these unseen wounds in order to help those who struggle within their grasp. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Combat Stress Reaction (CSR) are two such named silent disorders. They attack their victims much in the same way interrupting the everyday life of all those around it.
Everyone had light out at about 11 pm because we had to get up early the next morning for the big graduation. We were all up at around 8 am for a family Marine Corps breakfast that was very delicious. So as all of us packed and gathered our things up and put them in the car because after the graduation we were all heading back to the airport to head back home. The graduation ceremony started at 10 am. The drill instructors checked everyone in and seated all of us.