“Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.” -Henri Barbusse‚ 1916. Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier. He had been writing poetry since he was a teenager‚ and before the war‚ he worked as a teacher’s assistant and language tutor in France. He enlisted in England in 1915 and sent to the western front in early 1917. He was sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital after experiencing heavy fighting‚ and there he met Siegfried Sassoon‚ who already had established
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dug into early trench walls that served to protect soldiers from shrapnel and provided a place for a soldier to sleep. These funk holes developed into dugouts that could protect groups of soldiers from everything other than a direct hit from an artillery shell and created a comfortable room that turned into a home away from home for many. The dugouts often contained electric lights and beds for the soldiers to sleep on‚ but the
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War is a dangerous game‚ many people would likely agree to this‚ however‚ very few have ever seen a battlefront. The truth is that war‚ no matter how awful we can imagine it‚ is always exponentially worse. In Timothy Findley’s The Wars‚ Robert Ross‚ the protagonist‚ faces a situation that he finds difficult to come to terms with‚ and when faced with a similar situation later on in the novel‚ he must take drastic measures to reconcile the uncertainties of the past situation. Timothy Findley suggests
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During the icy brutal seasons of the war‚ conditions inside the trenches became atrociously loathsome. Previously‚ before the war the front lines were beautiful and now the once picturesque landscape was tarnished with artillery shells‚ Scattered among the rotting carcass of their own fellow soldiers. During “The Battle of Somme”‚ in 1916‚ German soldiers was trained to spot how British officers dressed and was ordered to kill them. I also know from my own knowledge that before the battle had started
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Akin to many young soldiers fighting on the Western Front‚ Owen spent a large majority of his life transitioning from the horrors of the battlefield to recuperating in many different hospitals‚ the most prominent one being Craiglockhart hospital. Owen not only expresses physical suffering through his own eyes but through other comrades who have been wracked by the war. This is also closely followed by the hardship of family and friends who endure the pain of not knowing whether their beloved ones
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http://downloads.army.mil/medalofhonor/monti Official Citation Staff Sergeant Jared C. Monti United States Army For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty: Staff Sergeant Jared C. Monti distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty while serving as a team leader with Headquarters and Headquarters Troop‚ 3d Squadron‚ 71st Cavalry Regiment‚ 3d Brigade Combat Team‚ 10th Mountain
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Trebuchet A Trebuchet is a siege engine that was employed in the middle ages. It is a modified version of the catapult that uses a counterweight to throw a large stone or blunt object. This means the only power it uses‚ is gravity. This invention brought about the end of knights‚ and castles. It’s usually made out of wood and some other materials‚ so it’s fairly simple to create; which means‚ most if not all societies in the middle ages had one. The trebuchet is often confused with the earlier
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Comparing “The Soldier” and “Counter Attack” At the beginning of the century two ideas prevailed about what war was like; it was either heroic or mere butchery. These ideas are represented in the 2 poems “The Soldier” by Rupert Brookes and “Counter Attack” by Siegfried Sassoon. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915) was an accomplished poet in WW1. Unlike Sassoon‚ Brooke never fought at the front line‚ but joined the Mediterranean Navy where he died of a mosquito bite. Rupert Brooke expressed his feelings about
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World War One was a war that consisted of many casualties. In trench warfare‚ not all the casualties were from the opposing trench‚ they came from your own in the form of diseases and infections. These could travel via the water at the bottom of the trench‚ in seems of clothing‚ in the soldiers hair‚ or by animals that lived in the trenches along side the soldiers. The trenches were a very unsanitary place. So unsanitary everything is cleaned once a day and things are still able to be distributed
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