For three months Charlie Company went from village to village, seeking the enemy, along the way 4 men were killed and 38 wounded all by booby traps or snipers, but they never came face to face with these evasive, guerilla warfare specialists- the Vietcong. They anxious, fearful and sought revenge. On March 15, 1968 plans were drawn up to attack My Lai, a village close to the coast of Vietnam known as Pinkville, believed by intelligence to be the headquarters of the Viet Cong. “The men of Charlie Company, seeing fellow
A Rollercoaster Named the Korengal Valley In their article "Combat High," and their documentary "Restrepo," Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington strap you onto the psychological rollercoaster of a soldier's mind while dealing with the hardships of the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan. The two men spent prolonged periods of time over the course of a fourteen-month deployment with a single platoon of men stationed in what CNN called "the ugliest place on Earth." While placed to oversee the security of the route between Omar and Kandalay, the young men faced death, life, horror, loss, excitement, fear, and above all, a hope for a better future. "We came out with a battle plan. After two months of being there I would fix it, and we wouldn't be getting shot at anymore," stated Captain Kearney before he became aware of exactly how hostile his new outpost was to be.
On page 163 Downs leads his platoon down a trail and into an ambush. Downs paid for the mistake himself when he got wounded but when he lost one of his men in the ambush he had thoughts of leaving Vietnam. I felt that Downs had reached an important point on page 20 when he fought a North Vietnamese soldier in close
hiP630 1. Billy bay Watkins was in Vietnam during a war when he stepped on a mine & blew off his foot 2. Billy dies in the war do to a heart attack & also loses his foot 3. The title is from a line in the song “billy bay” concerning the topic of courtship 4. The theme is self determination.
The story holds more than a nature - walk or a historical timeline of a solider. It holds the story of a hero and the hardships he faces when seperated from his company, and the force of leaving the handicapped boy behind due to the boy becoming delirious with pneumonia. Soley focused on his return to the rank and file of the 95th foot, Dodd does find company in a group of Portugese irregulars, who as well as Dodd see the horrors committed by the French Army. Setting the bridge in Zezere on fire, he felt no remorse, to live and fight one more day Dodd knew all this was done for the right to return to his company. This tale shows a solider's fight not only for glory, but for the right to fight along the side of his brothers.
Law of War During war, the soldiers exposed to too much pressure. Most of them try to deal with the enemy according to the law of jungle “kill or you’ll be killed”. They try to dehumanize the enemy to give themselves the right to kill him without felling guilty. However, after the application of this rule, most of the soldiers feel compunction because they realize that they kill a human been. In the story “The Main I Killed”, the author Tim O`Brien illustrates to us the reaction of three American soldiers after killing a Vietnamese man during the Vietnam War.
The plot of Saving Private Ryan is one that is difficult for some to grasp. Captain Miller, played perfectly by Tom Hanks, leads his eight man patrol through European battle fields after storming the beaches of Normandy in search of Private Ryan, a soldier who is being pulled out of battle due to the deaths of his three brothers during the invasion. The order comes from Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, who quotes a famous letter from Abraham Lincoln to support his decision to remove Ryan from battle. “I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved
The one word that best describes the mood of this vignette is shock. "O'Brien" is in shock from killing the man, and the rest of the world is moving around him, all in speech and imagination. O'Brien has his two American comrades, Azar and Kiowa, try to move around "O'Brien." Azar sees only a fallen enemy and compliments "O'Brien" on a thorough job — he cannot understand what "O'Brien" is feeling. Kiowa is more sympathetic, offering textbook comments, such as switching places with the dead man and that he would have been killed anyway, in order to console "O'Brien" whom he believes regrets his action.
Saving Private Ryan opens with a 30-minute war scene that is without a doubt one of the finest half-hours ever on film. This sequence, a soldier's-eye view of the D-Day invasion of Normandy, is amazing not only in terms of technique but in the depth of viewer reaction it uses. Spielberg doenst hold anything back to the viewer of the horrors of battle, using every way he can to show the chaos and lives that were lost. After fighting in the battle of Omaha beach D-Day, veteran Captain John Miller (Tom Hanks) is sent on a WWII rescue mission, he is supposed to find paratrooper Private James Ryan (Matt Damon) and bring him home . Ryan's three brothers have all been killed in action and the Army wants him returned to his family.
Throughout the movie you follow John Miller, Tom Hanks, as him and his men are to find the last brother of the Ryan family. The last Ryan brother is the last surviving brother out of the four that listed into the war. With all three being deceased, the military wanted to get Private Ryan home safe because they feel it is the honorable and right thing to do considering the entire family could die at war. With no idea where Private Ryan is, Miller and his men are set out on a journey to find one man and to keep him alive through thrilling yet dangerous warfare. The movie follows their adventure through France in order to find one man, Private Ryan.