But even though he was victorious there was a very high casualty figure. He didn’t make that much ground in the four months of fighting, only a couple of miles. Also, his sent basically sent his men to their death. He told his soldiers to "walk slowly in a line towards the enemy" giving the machine gunners an easy target. If he had visited the frontline he would have been able to see that the attacks he staged had major flaws.
WORLD WAR 1 * English born Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick came to Australia in 1910. He spent 4 years here, hoping to get free passage back to England. He joined the AIF and was placed with 3rd field ambulance. In April 1915 he found himself on the beaches of Gallipoli. * His role was to get wounded soldiers to field hospital for treatment.
Should ANZAC day continue to be commemorated? Every year in April, the nation stops to commemorate a battle in which thousands of young Australian soldiers lost their lives fighting for the freedom enjoyed today by Australians. It is a day where many generations can come together; where the old can reminisce about their relatives who died in the Great War and where the young can learn more about the significant event that happened 96 years ago, as well as why the day is so important. The Dawn Service has become a significant event around the nation, from large gatherings at Melbourne’s Shrine of Remembrance to smaller, intimate gatherings of only a handful of people at small country memorials. The simplicity and meaning of this event is captured as the first rays of sunshine break the night sky, which was the time of the first ANZAC landing.
Easy Company entered the war on June 6, 1944. It started with 140 men and ended with 92 men. More than 100 of the men who served had been wounded, some more that once. Their battle cry was “Currahee” which means “Stands Alone” but not more that one man stood alone. Even though that was their battle cry, they fought and served as
Anzac Day was first recognised by the public on the 25th of April 1916, the year after the outbreak of the war. In some states the governments help events to commemorate the death of the soldiers at Gallipoli but it was not recognised by the commonwealth. By the 1920’s Anzac Day ceremonies were held throughout the country and each state had commemorated the day with a public holiday. Today Anzac Day services are still held all over the country, all day. Services are held commonly in two types: one being a commemorative service which is help at the place of war where people would take marches through city centres later on in the day, the other being a commemorative ceremony which is held at and around war memorials, this method being the more common in modern Australia.
The scale of these two wars is completely different. In no way is that saying one war and or the services provided by those involved are more or less important than the other. The reason these Wars Started was also very different. The Vietnam War was started because the U.S was scared of the domino effect of communism. If one nation fell to communism many may follow.
Pain like a hot iron on skin flooded his legs causing my Uncle to be taken off the line. Later he was transported from Vietnam to Okinawa, Japan and finally back to the states. The date was March 13th of 1969, exactly 1 year after deploying to Vietnam, my Uncle was wounded in action therefore was awarded the Purple Heart in the name of the President of the United States. Overall, my Uncle Rob served dutifully as a M-60 machine gunner for 2 years and 4 months. 37 years later on a cold winter day, February 24th, 2006, I was face to face with my inspiration, my Uncle
Televisions were considered to be anti-war influences because the media showed horrible things happening in Vietnam that cause the public to give less support. The media not only affected the nature of the war to the public but it also changes the minds of Americans on their own people. "Critics in the government, the military, and elsewhere claim that the media was dominated by the antiwar journalists who poisoned the American public against the war by delivering superficial and negative coverage of the conflict. (pg 177 Walter). This shows how Walter noticed that people attentions were grabbed by the over coverage the news released.
Beginning in 1845 and lasting for six years, the potato famine killed over a million men, women and children in Ireland and caused another million to flee the country. Ireland in the mid-1800s was an agricultural nation, populated by eight million persons who were among the poorest people in the western world. Only about quarter
Explain the impact of the Vietnam War on veterans and their families Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War impacted a lot on veterans and their families in a variety of ways. The war took place between 1959 and 1975, and Australia was directly involved from August 1962 to 1973. This war was one of the longest war that Australia has ever involved in and it left with 520 troops killed and 3000 wounded. Because of the intense conditions that soldiers in Vietnam faced, memories of the war were not easily forgotten. The impacts on the veterans and their families are much more than we can think of.