That’s why the supplies never reached the 308th and many of his men had to die without medical and food supplies. However him and his army were able withstand such pressure and hold the stand suffering from waves of soldiers, heavy artillery fire, grenades and other explosions and even flamethrowers. This makes me wonder where the soldiers from the 308th found their motivation to go on, when many others would have already given up and tried to escape or suicide; Patriotism and the love for their country must have been the key. For this reason I think that this action-packed movie portrayed American society in WW1 and in general very well: determined and proud soldiers who never give up the fight for their country and for their rights. In comparison to “All Quiet on the Western Front” “Lost Battalion” contained
In war, you must always think before you do something that you will regret later on in life. By revealing each story’s conflicts and characters motivations authors Hwang Sunwon form the “Cranes” and Liam O’ Flahery from the “Sniper” both reveal theme that you should think before you act. Both “Crane” and “Sniper” have situations going on, For example in the “Cranes”, Songsam had to reunite with his child playmate friend or if he is going to complete his job assignment. In the “Sniper”, the Sniper had to know whether he going to kill the enemy sniper or if he is just going to watch what the armored car is doing. These stories have similar motivations because the stories take place during a war, and they either want to do their assignments or unites with others if they have to.
December 22, 1917 Dear Jim, It was so nice to receive your last letter, it is the only piece of home I carry with me. Amongst this horrible nightmare, I sit and try to remember the last time I celebrated Christmas with you and the family. What I would give not to be stuck here in these lonely, cold, and daunting trenches. I’m so overtaken by this horrible war; I feel as though I have lost all distinctiveness, I am a soldier. Nothing more, nothing less.
Wilfred Owen had a good education as well, but (unlike Rupert Brooke) he went to war, and saw what it was it was really like, the bad conditions, the lack of food and meaningless deaths, Wilfred Owen realised that the war was cold and cruel, not like people imagined it. This poem is very negative, and quite sad, unlike ' The Soldier' it expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenage soldier in the 1st World War, who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined, utterly helpless, to a wheelchair. I think Wilfred wanted people to realise that the war was not as glorious and victorious as people thought, there were so many men whose lives were thrown away even if they did physically survive it.. Unfortunately Wilfred Owen died on the 4th of November 1918, before the end of the war. To conclude, these two poems are different in many ways (attitude, mood, tone, ect..) One was to encourage the people to fight for their country and go to war, one was to make people see that the war destroyed many men's lives, it had no mercy.
After that we spent the day in processing which is always the boring part I thought, not this time if we weren’t busy we were doing PT. I was ready to die that night. The rest of the week was a blur I was in so much pain I was just pushing through. We did two multiple-mile runs, demoralizing circuit PT (three laps around a 0.8mi track doing all kinds of different exercises like bear crawls, crab walks, and iron mikes along the way), and rolling around in a gravel pit for an hour and a half in a session the Army likes to call
Ever? But I thought you "support the troops!"? The number of homeless veterans is staggering -- on any given night, at least 60,000 veterans are sleeping on the streets of the country that proudly "supports the troops." This is disgraceful and shameful, isn't it? And it exposes all those "troop supporters" who always vote against social programs that would help these veterans.
Soldiers frequently got injured and lots of them died in battles or of illness in the deplorable conditions of the army. The poem is indignantly ironic about the war and emphasizes the bitter aftermath. 'The Soldier' focuses on the glory of sacrifice for one’s country, not mentioning the process of sacrifice, i.e. being injured and dying. Brooke writes about the dead soldier instead of one that has survived.
If your life was in jeopardy, every day is you telling me. You wouldn't need weaponry just because of your felony. Consider this at least, I got everybody sweating me. On the streets is people who won't rest unless I rest in peace. Killed my folk a year ago, still in Robinson 2 my sleep they threaten me.
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.
The movie “Paths of Glory,” portrays a war theme - more specifically an anti-war theme. The message of the movie is portrayed through the soldiers and the different “paths the soldiers took to get to victory and survive.” Every soldier went down their own path overall leading to somewhat “glory” which not all of them got to experience. Men died in battle, mental illness (and illness in genera), fellow soldiers doings, death sentences; just an endless amount of reasons. Soldiers believed that they were fighting for the glory of victory or “patriotism” which Sam Johnson described as the last refuge of a scoundrel. Soldiers were brainwashed with the idea of patriotism - leading their country to victory at all costs, even if meant going into battle knowing you were going to die enforcing the message of the movie that, “The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” At first, the movie described the trench warfare situation of World War I.