Jeanne wakatsuki, the author of Farewell to Manzanar, and scholastic action, the authors of “War changed my Dad” display many similarities throughout their’ work. Each of the authors use of imagery and the tones they convey, allow the reader to understand what they, and their fathers went through before and after the war. Initially Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston/James Houston, and Scholastic action, the authors’ use of imagery is similar because they both talk about how the fathers’ both leave when the children are a young age to war. An example of one of the similarities in “War Changed My Dad” is, “... Isaiah couldn’t wait to wrestle and play catch with his dad, but he soon discovered that his dad was different.…
"Hurry up! We gotta go. We are to bypass 3rd ID in Baghdad and take the northern part of Iraq."…
The violence found and experienced in war is an entity so vigorously potent and robust that it can easily consume and ruin even the most capable human beings, let alone children who are still developing their own minds. In Ishmael Beah’s novel A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, the retrospection of a boy’s attempt to survive and flee from a war in Sierra Leone expresses the consequences of extreme violence and war that influence the physical, psychological and social characteristics of a person. Certainly, Ishmael’s many violent experiences teach a lot about the intended consequences or repercussions of acts of violence. In the novel, the transformation of Ishmael from an innocent boy to a mindless killing machine due to exposure to…
The privilege of being a child is only a lost dream to children in places like Sierra Leone where they are forced into joining rebel and militia groups. The children in those groups learn how to shoot guns when instead they should be learning how to ride a bicycle. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone he speaks about his time during the war and being recruited as a child soldier. Ishmael goes through numerous life changing events and commits awful things during his time in fighting in the war. Ishmael however is able to leave his horrible lifestyle behind, obtain his humanity back and start a new beginning along with the rest of society. Beah manages to withstand the effect of the horrors of war by accepting the loss of his family, and beginning new relationships with people such as his newly found uncle and Esther the nurse from his rehabilitation center.…
Many people have many people that they adore, but most people do not have the…
He needed to support his family and since they were in desperate times, because of the poor economic situations in South Korea, he decided volunteer and serve his country. When my grandfather left, my mother was only three months old. She had no recollection of my grandfather in her earlier years as he was gone most of the time. Luckily he worked as a supplier and returned when my mother was in kindergarten. Although my mother had a hard time accepting him as her own father for a very long time, she later…
Somewhere in the Middle East there is a mom fighting in a foreign war. The gunpowder smoke coagulating in her lungs, hearing the cries for help, and not knowing if she’ll ever see her 2 year old son again. Soldiers everywhere do this every day not knowing if they are going home ever to see their loved ones. They do this because they are selfless and are heroes. That’s why an American I believe in is made possible by the sacrifices of our military.…
“Men joined the Marine Corps for many reasons . . . I’d joined up to dodge the draft and ended up being sent to war” (Brady 8-9). This brief yet poignant statement begins the story of how James Brady ended up serving in the Korean War. As a young adult the draft was being reinstated and Brady did not feel the desire to fight in a war. He and a few of his friends decided instead to join the Platoon Leaders Class with the Marines, which had students spend two summers at the marine Corps Schools in Quantico, Virginia. After these two summers, graduates would become Lieutenants, but they could not be drafted. Shortly after Brady graduated, the war began in Korea and his class learned they had to prepare to be sent out. The Coldest War: A Memoir of Korea is a first-person narrative of Brady’s life during the war, including his time as a platoon leader, his interactions with other members of the military, and his own personal thoughts during this time.…
Right when he got out of high school he left his parents house and went off to join the army to be a supply unit. When he got to the training academy it was for a few months that he would be training to become a supply unit he would after that head off to set foot in vietnam. He never touched a gun and he was never in a dangerous area because he was the supply guy. He would only make sure everything is the right amount and would make sure everything is intact. It was then when we were in a supply truck going over to put the supplies in a headquarter somewhere.…
After my grandpa enlisted in the Marine Corp, he was sent to “boot” camp for training. Twenty-five days into camp his platoon was shipped to Inchon Harbor, Korea. Everything happened fast. Within a short period of time my grandpa went from a kid in the boondocks of West Virginia to a fully armed solider. He landed at Inchon harbor, and travelled through Seoul, which was in rubble, out to Munsan-Ni on the 38th parallel. My grandpa never saw any of the country outside the war zone, which was mountainous and bare from mortar and artillery fire. He fought for the 1st Marine Division, British Commonwealth Division, and an Army unit, where they were dug in on a trench line like in World War I, along the 38th parallel. The 38th parallel was designed as a temporary division of Korea at its coordinates of 38°N latitude into the North and South. His job was a Marine Corps Combat Correspondent, writing articles for military and civilian publications. He was in Korea for a year and lived mostly in a tent with two other men about a mile behind the "line" and in a sand-bagged bunker when online. They slept in winter sleeping bags on canvas cots and had some hot meals and ate "C" rations (basically little cans of food: like Beans and Franks or Ham and Lima beans). My grandpa’s work as a journalist enabled him to take a back seat to combat most of the time. However, my grandpa vividly remembers when his line ended up being attacked by a…
Have you ever been in the position of leaving your entire family behind? Well, I have an opportunity to make that choice this coming summer. I have a choice between staying here in the United States and playing baseball for an American Legion Team, The Outlaws, or leaving the US and playing for an Ambassador Baseball Team in the Dominican Republic. This decision is tough considering no one in my family can come along. Also in the sixteen years of my life, I have never been away from my family for an extended amount of time. Mainly, I feel there are three big factors in my decision. These factors are meeting new people with a different background, learning a new language and adapting to a new culture.…
I believe the poem the listening post by John kent is about a man who has lost all emotion, and is now numb to his surroundings- " cold bones, numbed brain". The writing doesn't contain any similies but I think it has more of an effect being said straight out. In the poem he is writing of a man who blackened sockets now take the place of where hopeful eyes used to lay. His fingers are "frozen and swell through the gloves, cradeled weapon held with love". His hands are cold and tired from the weather and holding that weapon just in case is all he knows, its like a second nature to him and he has grown bored with the repetition.. He tries to hold onto the happy memories but they are becoming nothing more but dull faded pictures in the back of his mind., while e wonders " will it ever end' will there ever be peace and no violence again.? The way its written brings a depressing mood to it yet still hopeful?…
When you are someone’s support system you take on multiple roles that indirectly deteriorate your self preservation. Being a listener or a shoulder to cry on, requires sacrifices that, in the moment, you do not even recognize as imposing. Voluntarily and willingly being there for someone begins with the unwavering doubt that you and your own problems cannot and will not prevail over your person’s immediate crisis. Depending on the duration of your duty, a somewhat selfish thought of inconvenience is bound to surface. But, that wave of retraction is almost always combatted by a riptide of dedication and loyalty that brings you back to sea, where all you can do is tread. In turn, the suppression of self regarding issues regularly comes with a layer of obligation and a sting of bitterness.…
This is Isaiah Carter. Today’s date is June 5th, 1944. I sit in the battleship waiting for the day to come. The D-Day which should be called. It was in a way devastating and depressing. The mix of feelings coming out of my heart that keeps beating like a car going 100 mph. I took out the old diary that I wrote back in 1898. Looking at the words, I wrote when I was eight. Man, life is really short to a kid who was born in this war era. Before, the actually landing on Normandy, a British general announced, “90 percent of their men expected to die in the landing.” I overheard them talking about this. I know this battle might be my last and on my tomb stone it will be written as Isaiah Carter 1890 - 1944 honorific African American soldier from…
My sister's friend Cody Spiker called and said, "You're having a bonfire and didn't invite me?" Little did we know, our shop was on fire.…