Treating War’s Toll on the Mind Response Paper – By Aisha Pitt 03/12/2010 In reading this article written by Betsy Streisand it is apparent that thousands of soldiers suffer from Post Traumatic Stress disorder during and after combat. When they suffer from being traumatized during the war, and when they are still in combat, little help is made available to the soldiers and they are soon pushed back into the war before they have the chance to fully heal. When a soldier returns home with PTSD they have the inability to turn the switch from soldier to a regular citizen. They can return with depression and anxiety because they can feel like there is a complete lack of safety for them and their family. Soldiers have a hard time integrating
Eden just recently was reunited with his birth parents. He was adopted when he was nine months old to his family now and couldn’t ask for a better family. But he, along with everyone else that is adopted, just wanted to know where he came from and why he was put up for adoption. Again and again he was turned down by the adoption agency because he was a part of a closed adoption. Eden had stopped trying to find answers after he was turned town several times.
Running head: HAT 1 TASK 3 HAT 1 Task 3 Western Governor’s University Describe the Communicable disease outbreak. A fifteen year old male refugee from Malaysia was coming with his mother and two brothers to relocate to the US. HE had had a fever on aug 21st and a rash on Aug 22nd. The symptoms were not reported to the IOM medical provider in Malaysia. The older brother had also had a rash on the 18th of Aug but was healthy on the day of travel.
It is hard for him to deal with throughout the story because it causes him to think of many different things, not only about what he did, but about the man he killed. No matter what it may be, death was a huge part of the war and one of the hardest things to face and deal with. Whether they spent a day or a year in Vietnam, it changed the soldiers in some way, either physically, mentally or both. Even the men who were very mentally stable found it hard to deal with all the aspects of the war. It was very difficult
they struggled to come to common grounds with their culture, with the lack of respect for women, and the maturing. In “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien soldiers carried not only the weight from there ammunition, but also the weight from falling soldiers. These soldiers marched And camped out several months with the emotional struggles of losing their fellow combats or even knowing if they were going to live on a day to day basis. The soldiers struggled with the thought of wondering if they would ever return home. Tim O’Brien “ They carried all emotional baggage of men who have got killed and might die” pg.21.
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. The book starts off with Caputo’s decision to join the marines and become an officer. He goes through military school, and in the spring of 1965 he landed in Danang, Vietnam. Most of the book covers his three year enlistment which started in 1964 and ended in 1967 when he was discharged from military service. He talks about the struggles he went through during the war
John Wade tried to make something of himself, but his past shooting of a fellow soldier and his “participation” in the My Lai Massacre, came back to ruin him in his run for a seat in the U.S. Senate. He also suffered from flashbacks to his war years and from what seems to be undiagnosed multiple personality disorder. His other persona was his nickname in Vietnam, Sorcerer. This book is a discussion of how soldiers relieve their experiences in war every day of their lives and how they can influence all aspects of their lives, from jobs to
War Veteran Interview My name is Ernesto Contreras, and out of my own curiosity have; decided to interview my grandfather and tell his story on his war experiences from the beginning of boot camp, until his last day of service. Arthur Cameron was born in phoenix, Arizona, in 1946. He is a Native American and had been very athletic in high school, playing on sports teams like basketball, track and field and cross-country. In the year 1963, the United States had been drawn into the war in Southeast Asia that would be later known as the Vietnam War. Arthur came from an era where there was a military obligation (draft).
In a war fought by voluntary soldiers, the line between military deserter and war resister can be slim. At the age of 19, Boise native Robin Long enlisted in the United States Army seeking a job with steady pay, medical benefits and a chance to go to college. Two years later, while stationed in a non-deployable unit at Fort Knox, Kentucky, Pfc. Long and a handful of troops from his unit received orders to go to Iraq. Long was given three weeks leave before his report date.
For months now, Paul has only known war and conflict, and a sudden change in that lifestyle can be unbearable. Additionally, when he finds out that his mother is dying of cancer, Paul feels sorry for