without knowing who the person is; having been in war for a long period of time makes him jump and get uptight. We cheer for the soldiers of today who defend our country in war‚ without realizing the effects that they have to cope with when returning home. Much like Rodriguez‚ many soldiers who return home from war suffer from mental‚ physical and social effects. Soldiers go back home with postwar mental effects one of them being PTSD‚ (post-traumatic stress disorder)‚ which includes feeling stuck
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SOLDIERS WITH PTSD THAT COMMIT CRIMES The ongoing war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan will always be a heavily debated topic from its beginning on October 7‚ 2001 with the attack on America soil on 9/11. But an ongoing war that is often ignored is the servicemen and women of those who return home from combat and suffer from psychological problems. As a Veteran of the U.S. Army myself that suffers from PTSD‚ I am disturb by the staggering reports of the number of combat veterans
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Sympathetic Antonio In Hector Tobar’s novel‚ The Tattooed Soldier‚ many of the characters experience unpleasant situations. These include homelessness‚ joblessness‚ and murder. These unpleasant situations lead to negativity in their lives‚ and this negativity can evoke feelings of sympathy. Of all the characters in Tobar’s novel‚ I believe Antonio deserves the greatest amount of sympathy because he lives a life of constant despair and is often treated unfairly‚ which is like a trap from which he
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Army basic training has two main stages in the process of building a Soldier. The first five weeks are to break you down‚ and the last five weeks are to break you down‚ building you into a Soldier. While a Soldier is being is being built they instill something called the Seven Army Values into you. The values are something that I lived by in the Army‚ and to this day I still live by them. I can take these values and apply them to everyday life. They are the standard for behavior‚ not only in the
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In 1914‚ during the Second World War‚ soldiers were dying like flies with massive numbers of dead at over 10 million. Automatic rifles and artillery fire were no respecters of person‚ nor was chemical warfare‚ no matter what side you were fighting on. If a bullet didn’t kill a soldier‚ it was almost a death sentence if he was wounded in battle‚ no matter how minor the wound. This death sentence was caused by wound infections‚ and the doctors in the field hospitals were working fervently to save lives
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In June of 1861 there was talk of a civil war escalating and the excitement was catching through town. A boy named Charley who is 15 from Minnesota lies about his age in order to join the First Volunteer Regiment that could reach up to 1‚000 men. Charley had never been far from home. He gets to Fort Snelling and tells them he is 18. He receives a few rules and is then a given a pair of black pants‚ grey socks‚ and a cheap hat. At this point the excitement was starting to wear off due to the
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Retired lieutenant general‚ senator from 2005-2014‚ soldier‚ advocator and humanitarian. Founder of The Romeo Dallaire Child Soldiers Initiative. Served in staff‚ training‚ and command positions through North America‚ Europe‚ and Africa‚ rising in rank from Army Cadet in 1960 to Lieutenant General in 1998. Funds specific projects for children affected by the civil war and genocide in 1994. Dallaire started an altruistic organization‚ which is particularly designed for unfortunate young people to
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Movie Review: We Were Soldiers Once Angela Lewis Student ID# 5849 Mountain State University‚ GIDS 504 Dr. Kenneth Miller There is a plethora of exemplary leadership examples depicted in the movie entitled We Were Soldiers Once. Mel Gibson was brilliant in his leading role as Lt. Colonel Hal Moore who led his brigade into battle in Vietnam by being and doing exactly what he expected of his troops. He led by example. He modeled the way. He also exemplified the same leadership qualities
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Ghost Soldiers 2. My opinion doesn’t really change. Ghost soldiers pretty much tells the story of how O’Brien wanted revenge on Jorgenson due to Jorgenson being to scared to treat or even help O’Brien out in any way. Although I don’t agree with what he did‚ i do feel as if he had to have some way to release those emotions that he had kept inside after being taken out of the group. There are certainly worse things that he could have done to Jorgenson though. 3. The ending of the story is very
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Lone Survivor and Ghost Soldiers are two stories that acknowledge two remarkable first hand accounts on surviving in combat when the enemy is greater than you are. Lone Survivor is a story of four men going up into the rocky rough terrain mountains of Afghanistan severely outnumbered and were not expecting to get into a huge gun fight but as their operation went haywire they fought for every ounce of life but only one US navy SEAL made it out alive. Now with Ghost Soldiers the theme is similar in
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