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    Joseph Plumb Martin was born on November 1760 in western Massachusetts. He wrote a book in which he described the life of an ordinary soldier during the American Revolution.”A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier” not only informed about the poor conditions in which the troops lived but also is one of the few soldier’s accounts of the Revolution in general. Martin grow up in his Connecticut grandparent’s house. He noted since 1774 that a war with Great Britain was coming‚so he promise himself to

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    Soldiers Home Essay

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    Soldier’s Home: Harold’s simple life When looking at the title Soldiers Home by Ernest Hemingway‚ you can tell that the story will be about Harold coming back home after many dramatic events in world war I. He moves back to his parents’ house while trying to figure out what to do with the rest of his life. When he came back home from war‚ his war experiences changed his intentions of life. Even though Harold Krebs faced many dramatic events throughout his life his perspective of the future changed

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    Buffalo Soldiers Museum

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    Visiting the historical Buffalo Soldier National Museum was quite interesting to me. I learned more about not only African American history but American history as well. The goal or mission of the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum is “to educate‚ preserve‚ promote and perpetuate the history‚ tradition and outstanding contributions of America’s Buffalo Soldiers from the Revolutionary War to present.” The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum seeks out to achieve its mission through its interpretation‚

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    THE ROLE OF A SOLDIER IN SOCIETY: CONTRAST OF PAST TO PRESENT WARFARE The current role of a soldier is far different then what it was in the past. Soldiers were a person walking down the street. One that lived in the local community as was a hero in the public’s eye. During a war soldiers are required to leave behind family and friends to protect there nation. They leave everything behind for the good of the nation. The role of the soldier has come a long way in recent

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    In the book Citizen Soldiers by Stephen E. Ambrose‚ the title explains mainly what the book is about. The title itself gives you the insight about how the war was fought through the perspective of a regular citizen fighting in the biggest war in history. During the war there were many casualties‚ as a result more regular citizens were being drafted to go right into battle. In this book Ambrose exemplifies the fact that there were many regular citizens in the war and that they took the situation

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    aboard a lifeboat where he was stranded for 227 days‚ with a wounded zebra‚ and orangutan‚ a hyena‚ and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger named Richard Parker. But the question is‚ did Pi Patel imagine the whole ordeal? Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (or PTSD) can cause people to have a loss of time‚ place‚ or person orientation‚ or even an increased or decreased awareness of surroundings1. Did he imagine

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    Why Soldiers Fought

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    understand why soldiers would choose to fight and why they kept fighting for so long. Through a series of letters written by the soldiers themselves‚ one can see multiple motivations for soldiers in Vietnam‚ such as believing in the cause‚ self-preservation‚ and comradary amongst the men. This is all brought together in Dear America: Letters Home From Vietnam‚ an adequate volume edited by Bernard Edelman for the New York Vietnam Veterans Memorial Commission. First‚ there were many soldiers‚ at least

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    Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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    The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a practice utilized throughout the world to memorialize soldiers who have died in modern wars without being identified. The first monument of this kind was the Tomb of Unknown Soldiers in Frederica‚ Denmark (1858)‚ which memorialized unknown soldiers who died in the First War of Schleswig. Another such Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is found in Philadelphia‚ Pennsylvania and was erected in 1866 to honor those soldiers who died during the American Civil War. The history

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    We We'Re Soldiers

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    Colonel Hal Moore and 400 young troopers from the elite newly formed American 7th "Air" Cavalry‚ were surrounded by 2‚000 North Vietnamese soldiers dug into the tunnel warren mountainside. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history and is portrayed here as the signal encounter between the American and North Vietnamese armies. We Were Soldiers Once... And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire‚ their common acts of uncommon valor‚ and their loyalty to and love

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    Andrew McClarren December 4‚ 2014 RUS 100 Ballad of a Soldier Reflection In the 1959 film Ballad of a Soldier‚ a young man at the age of 19 by the name of Alyosha Skvortsov is fighting on the front line for the Russian army during World War II. Alyosha and the other frontline men are faced with two German tanks quickly approaching them. One of the men makes a run for it and is killed; the other reports back to his superior and makes a break for it‚ leaving young Alyosha on his own. Realizing how

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